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Stop the Android softkeyboard from word completion

How do you stop the Android softkeyboard from displaying completed text in a TextView. It is very important for my application that the spelling is not shown. In 1.6 SDK I made the InputType = VisiblePassword and that seemed to stop it, however this does not appear to work in the 2.1 SDK.

thanks

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Did you try setting inputType to textNoSuggestions? That's API an API level 5, though, so you probably want to continue to include textVisiblePassword for the previous versions.

Shaun K.  2010-01-19 02:06:20
I will try this out
jax  2010-01-19 10:15:24
I can't find textNoSuggestions in the eclipse XML editor. Do you know why this is?
jax  2010-01-19 11:46:05
I added it manuallyandroid:inputType="textVisiblePassword|textNoSuggestions"but then I get an error message for a malformed xml file :(
jax  2010-01-19 12:47:43
What's your target API level in the Android manifest?
Shaun K.  2010-01-19 13:31:14
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" android:targetSdkVersion="4"/>
jax  2010-01-19 15:31:25
So I assume I will need to change the minSdkVersion to 5, but then 1.6 users will not be able to use the product!
jax  2010-01-20 01:47:40
No, change targetSdkVersion to 5 and minSdkVersion to whatever level you want to support.
Shaun K.  2010-01-20 01:52:20
OK that makes sense, I will give it a try tonight
jax  2010-01-20 08:50:22
ahhh, still not working. I made the targetSdkVersion to 5 but textNoSuggestions is still not visible in Eclipse...I restarted eclipse also after making the change.
jax  2010-01-20 10:32:17
Looks like you need to set the target from the project properties. Select the Project, then File > Properties. Go to Android. Set the target there.
Shaun K.  2010-01-20 13:17:39
That's assuming you're using Eclipse.
Shaun K.  2010-01-20 13:31:57
That worked, cheers
jax  2010-01-21 15:35:22
you would not believe it...it still does not work.I have everything setup with textNoSuggestions and visiblePassword. It compiles and runs fine, however, when I run it in the emulator I get the same problem...suggestions are showing. It seems that the soft keyboard simply ignores the flat????
jax  2010-01-22 11:00:15

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