How to use EditTextPreference as a masked Password text field?

Question

I have a very simple question:
I have a EditTextPreference dialog which I want to use for getting the user\'s password and I want it to be masked.

How c

Answer 1

If you want that the password mask persist also after device rotation is suffice to add the following imeOption:

in the edit text layout android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi"

or programmatically yourEditText.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI);