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How to disable Keyboard suggestions on EditText and tell the keyboard to show extra number row

I have an EditText in my layout file. When I click(focus) on EditText a soft keyboard appear contains predictive word in keyboard suggestion bar(see figure 1).
Figure 1
But I want that when I will click on my EditText keyboard will appear with no suggestion bar and with an extra number row(see Figure 2).
Figure 2
I already tried some answer saying that adding below attribute will do that but none of them seems worked for me.
inputType="text|textNoSuggestion",inputType="textFilter" not worked.The below code work but also open a secure keyboard.(oppo,vivo phone built in feature)
inputType="textNoSuggestion|textVisiblePassword"
Is there any solution to make it done without opening secure keyboard?
N.B. I don't wanna disable the secure keyboard.
I saw this feature on some code editing application available on playstore.

Is there a way to disable the "next" button for an editText that is set to numbers?

My current layout consists of a parent FrameLayout wrapping a single EditText. I'm only using this layout to try and figure out a way to disable the "next" button(see highlighted button below) because if that button was pressed it flips to a text keyboard and the EditText is no longer focused. This is running from Pixel emulated device.

You can include android:imeOptions="actionNone" on your <EditText> element in the manifest to say that you do not need an action button. There are other possibilities for android:imeOptions that might suit your needs better.
Bear in mind that there are hundreds of input method editors (soft keyboards) available for Android. Requests like android:imeOptions="actionNone" are hints, not demands. Whether the user's keyboard pays attention to actionNone is up to the developers of the keyboard.

Android: Keyboard

I want to display a keyboard when the EditText is selected i.e. the keyboard which appears from the bottom of the screen when we want to provide some inputs to an EditText.
Do i need to write code from scratch for this or there is something in-built? I don't have any idea about how to achieve the same.
Please suggest
Regards,

How to prevent the soft keyboard from displaying, or at least evict it once it does?

My app has an EditText that, when I click in it to enter text in the Emulator, brings up a soft keyboard. I don't want this confounded thing to begin with, but then, like the visiting loud-mouthed uncle in the plaid pants, doesn't want to go away, and it is blocking the button beneath it. How do I either (a) prorgrammatically prevent the soft keyboard from appearing or at least (b) evict it, albeit manually, when it pops up?

Provided that the user is not supposed to input text, but is able to click the EditText and then add text in some other way, you could change the EditText to a TextView and then apply the following three tags to it in the layout file:
style="#android:style/Widget.EditText"
android:editable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
This will make it look like an EditText, but behave like a TextView.
Since you want the user to be able to write stuff in the EditText there are in my opinion two solutions:
Leave it be. To remove the keyboard, all you need is to hit the back button once and every Android user knows this. It's standard behaviour.
Wrap everything but the Button you say dissapears in a ScrollView. The ScrollView will then wrap its content to allow the Button to be shown in between the keyboard and the ScrollView.

Just set android:editable="false" for your EditText

The answer is to set the focus on an other View like a Button, TextView or similar:
// REQUEST FOCUS
viewName.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
viewName.requestFocus();

I think what you really need is take a look at android:windowSoftInputMode attribute in Manifest.xml Look into this link.
You can specify the screen to pan/ resize to show the buttons that the input method might be blocking. Not allowing the keyboard to show will make the user unable to enter text at all!

Start Different Keyboard for different activities

My application has two requirements where one screen is an numeric entry and other has an search option. Since user has to use the numeric keyboard most of the time he has to change the input type of edit text and select the keyboard. Is there any way i could start a numeric keyboard for one activity and charater keyboard when other activty starts
Sebs

hiii,,,
Use for the edit text that should open a numeric keypad with following property:
android:inputType="phone"
And android:imeOptions="actionSearch" for other activity Edit Text xml layout
Hope you would be able to get what I mean to convey
With Regards,
Arpit Garg

To just get a numeric keyboard the user should not have to longpress and choose input type. That would be only if they are trying to change which actual keyboard application they are using, for instance switching from Android Keyboard to Swype keyboard. All of the different configurations of keys are all part of each keyboard separately. So the Android keyboard contains a qwerty keyboard, a number keyboard (which has numbers across the top row and symbols on all the other keys) and a Number pad keyboard (9x9 block of numbers like the numpad on your PC, or an old telephone). To tell the system which you'd like to use you just have to specify the inputType for your EditText.
this page will show you possible types
this question will show you how to set it from xml