Android software keyboard switch between numeric and alphabetic programmatically

Question

I have an EditText with inputMode = text. By default software keyboard is shown as alphabetical and user have to switch it to numeric by pressing specific key (

Answer 1

Just set it with the normal setter:

    EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edittext);
    editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
    // or 
    editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);