Samsung Galaxy Tablet does not allow entering floating point numbers to inputs with “number” type

Question

Our client wants us to display numeric keyboard for an input field so basically I created a field like:

Answer 1

I do this in C#/Xamarin and what works for me on the code side (I dynamically build up forms) is using the following:

   EditText edittext1 = new EditText(view.Context);
   edittext1.InputType = Android.Text.InputTypes.NumberFlagDecimal;

Hope it helps someone