Android Hide keyboard for password field

While setting setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL); for the password field, the text we are inputting is visible and will not be masked by dots which is not desirable for password field.

InputType.TYPE_NULL | TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD will display the keyboard.

If we try setting the content type again as TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_PASSWORD, the virtual keyboard will start appearing again.

Also tried out the below method which is also not working. InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editTextPasswordnew.getWindowToken(), 0);

Setting the InputType to NULL and setting the TransformationMethod still displays locale hints.

Can you please suggest any other possible开发者_运维问答 means on how we can achieve hiding the virtual keyboard on a password EditText field?

We don't want the user to do it from Settings.

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Take a look at android:windowSoftInputMode tag for activity element in AndroidManifest.xml. Especially at stateHidden and stateAlwaysHidden values.

But this setting influence behavior of all activity, not just one specific control.

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I solved this issue. Add in your manifest file this strings despite the fact that they are deprecated.

android:editable="false"
android:password="true"