Primary number keyboard Android

Question

I have an EditText field that will primarily have numbers inputted. Thus, in most cases, a number keyboard would be most appropriate. I set android:inputType="number" in xml, but now I only have number keyboards and no way to input letters. Is there a way to primarily call for number keyboards and yet enable switching to a letter keyboard?

Answer 1

you could do it like this :

yourEditText.setRawInputType(Configuration.KEYBOARD_QWERTY);

This will show the the numeric keypad first, but also allows you to enter free text.