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Android: How to remove customize keyboard button from keyboard?

Please find below the screenshot wherein the circular box shows the customize button option.
XMl Code:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/et_cost_per_mile"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:hint="Cost Per Mile(₤)"
android:inputType="numberSigned"
/>
All I want to remove :: button from keyboard.

You have change input type like..
android:inputType="phone"

You can not. This is your android keyboard app and you cant change it. The keyboard settings can be modified in the android settings. But obviously it depends on the user, not the developer.
The only way I think it will allow you to do that is that you include in your app a fake numeric keypad as a layer (Similar to the keyboard that appears when you have to type the pin of the app of your bank). However, I don't think this is worth it. With...
android:inputType = "numberSigned"
you are already blocking the user from entering letters or other characters, even if they change their keyboard.

Allow negative decimal input on Android with the nice 3X3 numeric keypad

I want to allow only negative numeric and decimal input with the nice numeric keypad that shows all the numbers in a 3x3 keypad. This keypad has a negative button, but it doesn't do anything, and I can't figure out how to activate it. The following is what I have, but it only allows numeric input:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/expense_amount"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
style="#style/FieldNumeric"
android:text="0.00"/>
I've seen several answers already that say to add
android:inputType="numberSigned"
or to use
TYPE_NUMBER_FLAG_SIGNED
among other suggestions. The problem with these answers is they lose the nice 3x3 numeric keypad and bring in the alphabetic keyboard.
Any suggestions would be awesome.
Thanks,
Devin

This worked for android 4.2.2 (Jellybean):
android:inputType="numberSigned|numberDecimal"

Phone pad and Qwerty keypad in android

I am looking to implement both phone pad and keypad in Android.As, per my requirement when the EditText is selected a default phone pad should be shown. But the user must be able to input alphabets also. Please suggest me a way to implement this.
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editTextref1"
android:layout_width="210dp"
android:layout_height="45dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:ellipsize="start"
android:hint="#string/custom1"
android:imeOptions="actionNext|actionDone"
android:inputType="text"
android:nextFocusDown="#+id/editTextref2"
android:shadowDy="10"
android:textColor="#383838"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:maxLength="15"
android:typeface="serif" />

I would like to make an assumption that it's impossible to do that in a simple and elegant way. The problem is that you input type is InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT and it cannot be changed to InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER because you need to input letters as well.
The problem is that input method checks the type of input and gives you the appropriate keyboard with numbers or alphabet depending on the type of the field input type. If you ask input method to give you number keyboard and you have your EditText in focus, you cannot force the input method to switch to alphabet keyboard in your code. I may be wrong but this is what I think.
The question is whether you can ask any third party input method to give you different keyboard while editing text - I think you cannot do this in your code. Input method will give you numbers or alphabet depending on your EditText but you cannot switch them dynamically because input method is not aware of your design issues. The only way you can do this is to make your own input method that allows you to switch numeric and alphabet keyboards dynamically.

how to keep softkeyboard even after I clicked send button

I use EditText to do input actions, and set android:imeOptions="actionSend" to the widget, so that the soft keyboard can have a send button, but when I click send, the soft keyboard will disappeared, however, it's not friendly to users since user must click EditText again to use the soft keyboard, all I want is to keep the soft keyboard, does any one know how to achieve it?
Here is a piece of my layout code：
<EditText
android:id="#+id/input_area"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/emo_btn"
android:inputType="textAutoCorrect"
android:singleLine="true"
android:imeOptions="actionSend"/>

you are using setOnEditorActionListener or setOnKeyListener ? on both case try your return statement with true

Android SoftKeyBoard - rename the Enter Key

i have several EditText in my App. If you hit the Enter Key you can tab to the next EditText without a problem but i would like to change the Enter Key so that this button doesn't shows the Enter Simbol but instead it shows "Next" or "Done". i tried many things but without any results. Here is the XML code for my EditText:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/et_nt_name"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:gravity="top"
android:imeOptions="actionNext|flagNoEnterAction"
android:imeActionLabel="Next"
android:singleLine="true"
android:inputType="textShortMessage"
/>

it is the case that some soft keyboards actually change the default text on the enter key by design, so it may not be your fault that it's not showing what you want it to show. the functionality should be the what you programmed it to do, though.
i recommend you switch to the default keyboard (long press on any edit text, then select input method) to verify that it's showing the correct text, and don't care about the what the other soft keyboards look like .
if your phone didn't come with the default soft keyboard, the Android emulator is your best friend.

Add this to your EditText,
android:imeOptions="actionDone"