how do i make it so that when focus is brought to an input text field in my application that the numpad keyboard with the 9 number keys on them opens rather than the full qwerty keyboard?
Set the input type of your EditText view to this:
android:inputType="number"
Or a related type based on your requirements
You must only add this line on your code:
input.setRawInputType(Configuration.KEYBOARD_12KEY);
this will show de 12 key keyboard more or less what you want, isn't it?
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Hello can anyone tell me how to show the following keyboard layout pragmatically in android.
Rather than choosing the type of keyboard consider setting the input type in the editText via:
android:inputType="XXXXXXX"
(Doing this can change the type of keyboard that appears when you want to provide input to the editText)
Replace the XXXXX text with any of these values according to your use case.
You can also add the android:imeOptions="XXXXXX" attribute to your editText.
Replace XXXXXX with any of these values.
You can learn more here
I have an EditText control for currency input, however, as everybody knows, Android does not replace the decimal separator in the keyboard like the users locale.
So I'm thinking on creating a dialog to edit this value, like a calculator. This way I won't have an EditText, but a TextView with a numeric soft keyboard.
Do you know any numeric keyboard control that I can plug into my dialog? Or maybe a solution to this Android gap?
For similar problem, I used:
android:inputType="date"
in xml layout for EditText. This gave me a numeric soft keyboard like calculator. Hope this helps.
The input type for my EditText control is set to "number." When the numeric keypad is displayed, besides showing the numbers, it also shows calculator keys (+/-/etc.). I am wondering if there is any setting to remove the calculator keys.
Thank you in advance for your help.
If all you need are actual numbers 0-9 you could set your keyboard type to "phone" instead of "number" which should give you a more 9-pad style keyboard that probably won't contain the extra keys like +, - etc...
However in the end it is up the currently running keyboard application (which is chosen by the user) If whatever keyboard they happen to be using shows keys that you would rather it not, there is generally no way for you to instruct it not to show those keys.
If you want to have complete control over the input then you'll have to create your own View that mimics the functionality of the keyboard and "manually" insert the typed characters into your EditText.
Add this line of code
input.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
Hope it helps.
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
I have an EditText field for the user to enter their weight in lbs. How can I override the traditional keyboard and display the numeric keypad instead?
This didn't work for me. However, I was able to accomplish the aforementioned by either of the following lines:
// TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER: Class for numeric text. This displays the numbers/symbols keyboard.
editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
// TYPE_CLASS_PHONE: Class for a phone number. This displays the phone number keypad.
editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_PHONE);
This is what i pulled off of the google API
//Set the input style to numbers, rather than qwerty keyboard style.
txtView.setInputMethod(DigitsInputMethod.getInstance());