how to get soft keypad to write email id in edittext in android

Question

I am using android:phoneNumber to open soft keypad to get phone number in android.I want to open keypad which contains all key required to write email id in edittext.So is there any solution for this(email) like phone number. Thank you

Answer 1

Use textEmailAddress (0x00000021) as defined here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html

In Java code:

 myEditText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_EMAIL_ADDRESS);

In XML properties:

 android:inputType="textEmailAddress"