Text box control properties in android application in eclipse

EditText is a thin layer over TextView that configures itself to be editable.

public class EditText extends TextView

java.lang.Object
 ↳ android.view.View
     ↳ android.widget.TextView
         ↳ android.widget.EditText

Public Constructors
	EditText(Context context)
	EditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
	EditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)

Public Methods
Void	extendSelection(int index) Convenience for extendSelection(Spannable, int).
Editable	getText() Return the text the TextView is displaying.
Void	selectAll() Convenience for selectAll(Spannable).
Void	setEllipsize(TextUtils.TruncateAt ellipsis) Causes words in the text that are longer than the view is wide to be ellipsized instead of broken in the middle.
Void	setSelection(int index) Convenience for setSelection(Spannable, int).
Void	setSelection(int start, int stop) Convenience for setSelection(Spannable, int, int).
Void	setText(CharSequence text, TextView.BufferType type) Sets the text that this TextView is to display (see setText(CharSequence)) and also sets whether it is stored in a styleable/spannable buffer and whether it is editable.

Protected Methods
boolean	getDefaultEditable() Subclasses override this to specify that they have a KeyListener by default even if not specifically called for in the XML options.
MovementMethod	getDefaultMovementMethod() Subclasses override this to specify a default movement method.

Here are some values that can be changed,
none, text,textCapCharacters, textCapWords, textCapSentences, textAutoCorrect, textAutoComplete, textMultiLine, textImeMultiLine, textNoSuggestions, textUri, textEmailAddress, textEmailSubject, textShortMessage, textLongMessage, textPersonName, textPostalAddress, textPassword, textVisiblePassword, textWebEditText, textFilter, textPhonetic, textWebEmailAddress, textWebPassword, number, numberSigned, numberDecimal, numberPassword, phone, datetime, date, time.