EditText input numbers as password style on Android

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I am currently developing an App for Android. I am creating an Alert Dialog with input boxes and I need the input boxes to be numbers only but as a password input. How can I do this google isn't finding me anything only one or the other. This needs to be done programatically not using XML

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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Edittext set for password with phone number input? (android)

<EditText
android:id="@+id/EditText01"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:password="true"
android:inputType="phone" />

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered Mar 20 '11 at 21:19

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I went for the xml in the end as I later on found that I wanted to do was better off with a different activity and xml layout – Boardy Mar 20 '11 at 21:58
android:password="true" is deprecated – selva_pollachi Aug 08 '14 at 17:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 20 '11 at 21:14

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Set the input type of your Edittext with setInputType(TYPE_NUMBER_VARIATION_PASSWORD). More info here. It seems it's only available from Honeycomb

answered Mar 20 '11 at 21:14

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 30 '11 at 04:05

In your xml

<EditText
android:id="@+id/EditText01"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:password="true"
android:digits="1234567890" 
android:inputType="number"/>

the digits part makes it so you can't use symbols or any other characters, and this ensures that ONLY numbers will be entered. using the inputType="phone" method, parentheses and pound signs can still be entered

EditText input numbers as password style on Android

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