How to keep soft keyboard from opening on activity launch in Android?

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In an Android app, whenever the activity launches, the textbox gets the focus and the soft keyboard pops up automatically. I have tried to stop this by using following line in onCreate method, but it does not work.

((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow(EditText.getWindowToken(), 0);

Possible duplicate of [How to remove auto focus/keyboard popup of a field when the screen shows up?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2892615/how-to-remove-auto-focus-keyboard-popup-of-a-field-when-the-screen-shows-up) — Shirish Herwade, Apr 13 '18 at 09:19

score 120 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '11 at 05:22

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I know this is old but maybe it will help someone in the future...

I haven't seen anyone suggest "stateHidden"

From the Android docs - android:windowSoftInputMode

Your manifest file would look like:

<activity
    ...
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"
    ...
>

answered Mar 14 '11 at 05:22

rf43

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this is more simple straight forward. – Robert May 17 '13 at 03:44

score 19 · Answer 2 · edited Feb 28 '19 at 13:25

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You can use the following line of code to make sure the keyboard only pops up when a user clicks into an EditText

Java

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Kotlin

window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)

And

You need to add

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

to your activity tag in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

edited Feb 28 '19 at 13:25

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answered Jun 14 '10 at 13:51

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This works, but when I click the text box for typing, the keyboard pops up over the text box an I can't see what I am typing. The text box is at the bottom of the screen. – Adnan Jun 15 '10 at 08:09
You need to add android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" to your tag in the AndroidManifest.xml file. – Donal Rafferty Jun 15 '10 at 08:23
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" is set in AndroidManifest.xml but still same problem. There is a button in same screen too. I tried to move focus to the button by using: btn.setFocusable(true); btn.requestFocus(); But still the focus is on TextView. I don't know what I am doing wrong. – Adnan Jun 15 '10 at 08:40
Strange, can you post your code? The activity tag from the manifest and the code from your UI Activity? – Donal Rafferty Jun 15 '10 at 09:14
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I am going to post the code as an answer of this question, as code formatting is not available in comments. – Adnan Jun 15 '10 at 10:12

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 14 '10 at 13:10

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Does the following work?

// Find editor
EditText editWindowInstance = this.findViewById(R.id.MyEditWindow);

// close soft keyboard 
((InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow(editWindowInstance.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

answered Jun 14 '10 at 13:10

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How about using "hideSoftInputFromWindow(editWindowInstance, ...)" instead of "editWindowInstance.getWindowToken()"? – Thorsten Dittmar Jun 15 '10 at 10:09

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 16 '16 at 13:00

You can put this code in your Activity.onCreate: this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

But I found that the most reliable and clean way was to simply set the focus onto to a different view, in your activity XML Layout

<Button
  android:id="@+id/mybutton">
  <requestFocus />
</Button>

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 05 '20 at 15:52

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None of the solutions worked for me. Finally a very easy solution worked like magic. Add these two lines in your parent layout.

android:focusable="true" 
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

answered Feb 05 '20 at 15:52

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Jun 25 '14 at 11:02

This will work perfectly, try this

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

And add the following to your manifest.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"

cheers enjoy coding....

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 15 '10 at 08:50

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The following code works for me

((InputMethodManager) iClockActivity
                    .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
                    .showSoftInput(textView, 0);

answered Jun 15 '10 at 08:50

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