EditText without automatic correction, etc.

Question

My EditText should accept input consisting of partial words, names, etc. At least on my HTC Desire, this is difficult, as the keyboard wants to suggest and / or correct some entries (for example, changes to "gor" to "for"). I tried setting textNoSuggestions in the view, but that does not fix it.

Any simple solution to this?

Answer 1

You can do this from code. Set the input type to EditText as shown below:

txtEmail = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txtEmail); txtEmail.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS); 

For a list of all available input types, see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/InputType.html

Answer 2

Try the following:

 android:inputType="textFilter" 

If this does not work, try:

 android:inputType="textFilter|textNoSuggestions" 

Answer 3

Other suggestions are true, but SwiftKey decided it would ignore inputtype values ​​"in response to user requests." Although I agree that this is a bad idea, as it contradicts Google’s recommendations, and developers usually have a good reason for disabling automatic correction (e.g. username, last name, etc. fields), this is still the most used keyboard app for Android devices, so this can be a big problem.

The workaround is to use

 android:inputType="textVisiblePassword" 

or

 .setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_VISIBLE_PASSWORD);