Android Question Trying to turn off suggestions on EditText

[MitchBu]

I tried to apply the solutions posted here

(solved, it's there)Turn off IME suggestions

Turn off IME suggestions: From: https://developer.android.com/training/keyboard-input/style.html#Type Specify the Keyboard Type. Makes available. For example, if you'd like an input method for entering a phone number, use the "phone" value: Resulting in a Numeric keyboard with no suggestions...

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and here

How To Turn Off Suggestions On a 4.1.1 OS Tablet

I tried the following two methods on a Samsung Galaxy Tab2 7 inch to turn off suggestions, but neither works: inputText.InputType=Bit.OR(inputText.InputType, 524288) or: inputText.InputType= 524288 Does anybody have a workaround. Thank you very much

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To no avail, I still get suggestions for an EditText on my Huawei P-Smart phone and Samsung SM-T585 tablet.

Any ideas ?

TIA

 

[MitchBu]

Alright. I know what happened. Apparently, Android is using hint text to get a cue about what the EditText is about.

I had "File name" as hint text, and obviously, Android wanted to help with a name.

When I changed the cue text to "Filename", suggestions disappeared.

Hope it helps whomever is bumping into the same kind of issue.