How to programmatically hide/disable emoticons on Android soft keyboard

Question

Is it possible to hide a specific keyboard button? I have an EditText and on some devices its keyboard has smiley faces while on other devices it is missing. I

Answer 1

(For completeness sake)

This solution is for people who need to have textview without the smiley on their soft keyboard. @Adrian's solution, to use email address type, works but it will show unnecessary '@' and '.com' buttons on your keyboard. I tried several combinations of InputType and the best solution IMHO is this:

mTextView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD);

Original Keyboard:

Resulting keyboard: