At times you want to control what kind of data a user can put in an edittext field. If a user inadvertently adds a letter to a field that is supposed to do calculations, this might cause your app to crash. A good way to avoid this is by using the input type filter. This tutorial will take you through the various input type options and what they do. Where to find the input type option On your Sketchware project screen add an edittext to your project. Click on this edittext as shown below to open the properties menu. To locate the input type menu, simply scroll to that option as shown below. The input type property in Sketchware currently has six six options. These are text, number signed, number decimal, number signed number decimal, phone and password. Each of these causes your keyboard or edittext field to behave a certain way. text This option will allow you to enter text characters which include letters, numbers, symbols and even emojis. When you choose this option your keyboard