How to disable displaying "suggestions" on the Soft Keyboard

Question

I want to turn off displaying "Suggested Words" on the soft/virtual keyboard when someone is using my application (only on certain Activities). For the default Android keyboard, this can be found under 'Settings' (under Word Suggestion Settings).

Is there a way to disable it only within your application, without requiring the user to manually go and do it? I basically want the user to type words without providing any hints.

Thanks!

Answer 1

When developing for 2.0+, the supposed way is setting android:inputType="textNoSuggestions" (ref). Unfortunately, suggestions are still shown on HTC Desire 2.2 (and probably other HTC Sense devices as well).
Using android:inputType="textVisiblePassword"will not help as well as the software keyboard by HTC won't allow you to switch languages.
So I stick to android:inputType="textFilter" to disable suggestions.

Answer 2

You can disable suggestions on the Soft Keyboard by adding the following line in the xml -

android:inputType="textNoSuggestions" 

However according to this article, it may or may not be supported by the IME (the keyboard).

If this issue occurs, the below method works for sure -

android:inputType="textNoSuggestions|textVisiblePassword"