Android Ice Cream Sandwich Edittext: Disabling Spell Check and Word Wrap

Question

Whilst testing on the Android Emulator running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), I have noticed that the Edittext does some quite strange things.

Firstly, it underlin

Answer 1

Disabling Spell-Checking
In order to get rid of spell checking you must specify the EditText's InputType in the XML as the following:

android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"

However, my EditText needed also to be multiline, so I have added the following line to the EditText's XML:

android:inputType="textMultiLine|textNoSuggestions"

Disabling Word-Wrap
As noted, the XML attribute android:scrollHorizontally="true" does not work. However, strangely, if it is done through Java it does work. Here is the necessary code to achieve no word wrapping:

mEditText.setHorizontallyScrolling(true);