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.

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Answer 1

android:inputType="numberPassword" doesn't work for me. Eclipse told me, that no String values are allowed for this attribute. So i used following:

This got me a EditTextPreference with a dotted textdisplay and a number keyboard for input.