setting onscreen keyboard type in Android

I was wondering whether the soft keyboard that pops up when we want to type anything in android can be configured. For example, in iOS, we can set the type of the keyboard to be numeric or alphanumeric or email etc. Is there anything similar in Android ?开发者_JS百科

Yes Use

 android:inputType="textShortMessage|textAutoCorrect|textCapSentences|textMultiLine"

As a XML tag for EditText's and other writtable widgets