Only show number buttons on Soft Keyboard in Android?

Question

On the soft keyboard in Android you can set the soft keyboard to show the numbers instead of a-z keyboard using android:inputType=\"numberDecimal\". However, wh

Answer 1

The accepted answer didn't work for me. It kept showing other unwanted characters

I found a way to accomplish the behavior I wanted by changing the inputType to numberPassword and then disabling the password dots

textInput.inputType = InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER or InputType.TYPE_NUMBER_VARIATION_PASSWORD
textInput.transformationMethod = SingleLineTransformationMethod()