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

android:inputType="textMultiLine|textPhonetic"

removed all red underlines for me.

android:inputType="textMultiLine|textNoSuggestions"

produces compilation error.

I use Android API 1.6.

Answer 2

remove android:inputType="" and all should be well.

Answer 3

Disabling the spell checker for general text input via code:

mEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS);

Answer 4

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);

Answer 5

To disable line wrapping you have to wrap (pun not intended) your EditText with an HorizontalScrollView and set your layout_width to match_parent.

Answer 6

In your Java class you can add to the Edittext object...

  wire1type = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.wire1type);
  wire1type.setInputType( ~(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_AUTO_CORRECT) );

This clears out the autocorrect flag and will work in API 4.