Android: Which EditText InputType should I use?

Question

I have an EditText box and I want the default keyboard that comes up when it is selected to be the numeric keypad... however, I do not want to prohibit letters from being entered (as the "numbers" InputType does). What InputType should I use?

Answer 1

You need to add the following property to your EditText

Edit--

Sorry i did nt read your question properly. What do you mean by i do not want to restrict user from entering alphabets? You want them to appear or not? . If you want to display only numbers there you can select phone as inputtype.

Answer 2

Basically, EditText inputtype is used to set the input type in your EditText.

The possible values for the android:inputtype are:

• text
• textCapCharacters
• textCapWords
• textCapSentences
• textAutoCorrect
• textAutoComplete
• textMultiLine
• textImeMultiLine
• textNoSuggestions
• textUri
• textEmailAddress
• textEmailSubject
• textShortMessage
• textLongMessage
• textPersonName
• textPostalAddress
• textPassword
• textVisiblePassword
• textWebEditText
• textFilter
• textPhonetic
• number
• numberSigned
• numberDecimal
• phone
• datetime
• date
• time

then you can use any value as showing in example:

<EditText android:id="@+id/EditText01"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:inputType="number"
 android:text="1212223"/>