Android Numeric Soft Keyboard

I recently spent some time trying to figure out how get the Soft Keyboard to default to numeric input when I only required numbers entering. It’s actually quite simple but took awhile to figure out. All you have to do is add the ‘android:inputType’ to the EditText resource element. You can then add numberDecimal for numbers with decimal places or number if no decimal places are required.

<EditText 
android:text="" 
android:id="@+id/editReading" 
android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
android:layout_height="wrap_content" 
android:inputType="numberDecimal">
</EditText>