Open a numeric keyboard without forcing the EditText to be numeric only

Question

I\'ve come across this while doing work on creating my own Keyboard but can\'t for the life of me remember where I ran across it.

I want top open the Nu

Answer 1

8 days late but alrighty!

android:inputType="number"

works for me. Of course Glitch's answer might be better given that not all keyboards have a numeric input style. And of course you'll still have to validate it