EditTextPreference not hide password on orientation change

Question

In my android application I show the dialog in preference screen.Dialog will appear when user clicks on particular view. I used EditTextPreference. The code for EditTextPreference is as shown below:

<PreferenceCategory
        android:key="deep"
        android:title="@string/security_setting_edittext_hint" >
        <EditTextPreference
            android:dialogTitle="@string/security_setting_button"
            android:icon="@drawable/lock"
            android:inputType="number|textPassword"
            android:key="set_password_preference"
            android:summary="@string/set_password_summary"
            android:title="@string/security_setting_button" />
</PreferenceCategory>

So when user enterd password through keyboard it appeares as hidden in edittext as shown in figure

but at same time if orientation of device is changed the password is displayed not as hidden in edittext as shown in figure

Please provide me a solution to hide password when orientation of screen changes.

Answer 1

Whenever the screen orientation is changed, the view gets recreated. One way to handle this is having 2 seperate xml files for the layout. Eg. activity_main.xml corresponds to portrait mode, then you can have another file activity_main-land.xml for landscape mode. In this new xml file, set the properties of EditText as password.

Hope this works.