How to disable Android Soft Keyboard for a particular activity?

Question

I have an activity with one EditText where I need to input numbers only.

Now, I have defined the Input Type for my EditText to be number only and have drawn up a pretty

Answer 1

Just thought it might be possible to extend EditText and handle the access to the softkeyboard through there and came across this question which has a very elegant solution to my problem.

Just followed the steps and this handled the softkeyboard perfectly for me. Hope it helps others that come across this issue.