How to show Android keyboard with symbols mode by default?

Question

I have a EditText component, and, of course, if you click on it, the Android keypad is shown, allowing the user to input text. As far as I know, all Android sof

Answer 1

Programmatically it is possible with little bit of tweak to the usual flow. First you have to set editText as:

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);

Then you have to listen for keyevent. On pressing of pound set the InputType again to InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT. This should work as it works for me.

editText.setOnKeyListener(new View.OnKeyListener() 
        {
         @Override
         public boolean onKey(View v, int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
                                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                                Log.d("KeyBoard", "Keyboard Test Key Hit");

         switch (keyCode) {
         KeyEvent.KEYCODE_POUND:
                                                                                      if(editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
         {

         editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
         return true;

     }

Same thing I've answered i: EditText with number keypad by default, but allowing alphabetic characters