How to disable spelling corrections programmatically in Android

java android android-edittext android-softkeyboard spell-checking
Adem picture Adem · Sep 7, 2011 · Viewed 16.8k times · Source

How can I disable spelling corrections in an EditText's soft-keyboard programmatically in Android? The user can disable it from settings, but I need to disable it in my application.

Is there any way to do this?

Answer

CrackerJack9 picture CrackerJack9 · Sep 7, 2011

Set this in your layout's xml for your EditText:

android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"

Or call setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_FLAG_NO_SUGGESTIONS) in your Activity'

If you need to support API 4 and below, use android:inputType="textFilter"

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