[android-developers] Re: Allow only decimal numeric input and use phone soft keyboard?

From reading this:

http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/creating-input-method.html

it looks like you need TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER.

On Apr 21, 10:25 pm, Watter <matthewcwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to do something that I thought would be simple, yet I
> still haven't found the right approach.
>
> I have a EditText field that should only accept unsigned decimal
> entries. Using android:inputType="numberDecimal" in my layout xml file
> achieves this, however the soft keyboard that is raised with this
> inputType is the standard keyboard but just uses the alternate view
> with the number row on top. This is far from ideal for a field that
> only allows numbers. A much better soft keyboard for numeric entry is
> the "phone" one. It has all of the numbers and a decimal. Perfect!!
> Well, except that for the life of me I cannot figure out how to use
> both the phone keyboard AND allow only numeric entry. I've tried
> everything I can think of but if I use the phone soft keyboard then
> the input field also allows things like "(" and any of the other
> symbols available on that keyboard.
>
> Is there any way to get the nice big numeric buttons of the phone
> keyboard along with only allowing decimal entry?
>
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