Android numeric password field

Question

I have an EditText field which needs to be a numeric password field. Everything works OK in portrait mode; not in landscape. When the user selects the EditText field, the UI

Answer 1

This problem can be solved without using deprecated android:password. Use the following code snippet, but do not reverse the sequence of calls:

    EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.MyEditText);
    editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
    editText.setTransformationMethod(PasswordTransformationMethod.getInstance());