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.

Answer 2

This problem can be solved without using deprecated android:password. Use the following code snippet, but do not reverse the sequence of calls:

    EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.MyEditText);
    editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
    editText.setTransformationMethod(PasswordTransformationMethod.getInstance());