Android RTL password fields?

Question

It appears that if you have an EditText on android with the

android:inputType=\"textPassword\" or android:password=\"true

fields

Answer 1

If you put inputType = textPassword or set a passwordTransformation method on EditText, text direction is taken as LTR. It means RTL for password is discouraged. You need to write custom TextView to override this behaviour.

Code snippet from android source for TextView.

// PasswordTransformationMethod always have LTR text direction heuristics returned by
        // getTextDirectionHeuristic, needs reset
        mTextDir = getTextDirectionHeuristic();


protected TextDirectionHeuristic getTextDirectionHeuristic() {
        if (hasPasswordTransformationMethod()) {
            // passwords fields should be LTR
            return TextDirectionHeuristics.LTR;
        }