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

you can achieve it by setting the below attribute to EditText on xml has follows android:inputType="number"

Answer 2

I find the answer a day, finally I found this and its work.

android:inputType="textVisiblePassword"

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Answer 3

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);