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

I think you should use android:password="true" and android:numeric="integer". But as the Android documentation states (in R.attr.html, not in the TextView docs), these are deprectated and you should use android:inputType. inputType takes flag, so you can mix mulitple possibilities. And I think android:inputType="number | password" should work for you.

You should specify android:password="true" if you want to support older devices too.