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

To fix the issue where the password is visible in the landscape mode full-screen editor (as Marcus described), you can add the following line to disable the full-screen editor:

editText.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI);

You may also want to change the typeface to monospace to better emulate the text-password behavior:

editText.setTypeface(Typeface.MONOSPACE);