android: start in symbol keyboard mode, but don't restrict to numbers-only input
<p>I want to specify that Android should start the soft keyboard for a given EditText in the numeric/symbols mode. I know this can be done by setting the input type of the EditText to be numeric using EditText.setInputType() except that I do not want to restrict the input type for the EditText to numeric input only**. Is there another way to tell Android what keyboard it should open for a given EditText?</p>

<p>** I want essentially a Math class of numeric input, accepting arbitrary mathematical expressions, including [0,9.+-/*()@:].</p>
