Setting Android Key Board Type

Question

I'm new to Android development. For that reason, I apologize if this is a dumb question. I have honestly tried to figure this out and read a number of related questions without any success.

I have a basic app running in . From the screenshot, you can see how the keyboard focused on numbers displays. I just want to show the basic qwerty-esque keyboard. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to do it. Currently, I've set the imeOption to normal thinking that would do it. I also tried setting the inputType to 'normal' without any luck. Here's the relevant pieces of my Android Layout file.

<EditText
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:imeOptions="normal"
  android:inputType="text"
  ...
/>

What am I doing wrong? How do I show the basic qwerty-style keyboard in Android? Thank you!

Answer 1

As TanjaV said, this keyboard is for devices with a physical keyboard where the avd will not change it regardless of your input type.

Change your AVD devices to something such as Nexus4, or Nexus One (if you want older model), then you should see the keyboard changing.