Opening the numpad of the device

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Open a numeric keyboard without forcing the EditText to be numeric only

In my app i have an EditText field which accepts only integer values. so i thought it would be better to open the numpad automatically instead of the alphabetics when i click on this EditText.

How can i achieve this??

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '12 at 09:10

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in your xml file when defining your EditText, you add your inputType as Number

android:inputType="number"

answered May 29 '12 at 09:10

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 29 '12 at 09:20

Using xml layout attributes

For this, you can use several xml attributes to your EditText xml definition (see android:inputType for available options)

Examples:

<EditText android:inputType="phone" ...
<EditText android:inputType="number" ...
<EditText android:inputType="numberSigned" ...
<EditText android:inputType="numberDecimal" ...

You can also both hint android to show digital keyboard and restrict input to acceptable characters with android:numeric

Examples:

<EditText android:numeric="integer" ...
<EditText android:numeric="signed" ...
<EditText android:numeric="decimal" ...

Programatically

Use EditText.setRawInputType(int) with constants such as TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER you will find in android:inputType

or

EditText editView = new EditText(this);
editView.setKeyListener(new NumberKeyListener())

EditText editView = new EditText(this);
editView.setKeyListener(new DigitsKeyListener());

Hope this help

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered May 29 '12 at 09:08

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See TextView Documentation as EditText extends from it :

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.styleable.html#AutoCompleteTextView_inputType

answered May 29 '12 at 09:08

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Opening the numpad of the device

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