Show keyboard in password mode without styling the EditText

Question

I need the keyboard to be shown in the mode similar to the password input type field, but i dont want to specifically set it to that mode for all the Edittext's in the xml. My required type is somewhat similar to the image here: Sample Keyboard Pattern Basically, I want to disable the whole bar that contains the speech and auto complete in it, but want my EditText to display the same mode as normal text field.

Answer 1

Add the following attributes to your EditText layout:

android:inputType="textFilter"
android:privateImeOptions="nm"

Additionally, add this in onCreate method of MainActivity:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);

For reference, take a look at this.