How to remove auto focus/keyboard popup of a field when the screen shows up?

Question

I have a screen where the first field is an EditText, and it gains the focus at startup, also popups the numeric input type, which is very annoying

How can I make sure that when the activity is started the focus is not gained, and/or the input panel is not raised?

Solution 1

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editTextField.getWindowToken(), 0);

or

set activity property in manifest file as below in the application tag

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

Solution 2

go to your application manifest file, and write this line for that activity you want to disable auto keyboard pop-up.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

Solution 3

To programatically not have the keyboard displayed, but the default widget still recieve focus call:

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

in onResume()

Solution 4

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

call the above method inside onCreate().It prevent softKeyboard to show unless user select EditText by tapping or clicking.

or simply add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" in Activity tag in Manifest.xml

Solution 5

This is usually a mess. The first thing I try is try to steal the focus with another view via . You also have to have the focusable and focusableInTouchMode.

<TextView
  ...
  android:focusable="true"
  android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

    <requestFocus/>
</TextView>

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Comments

[Pentium10]

I've tried that but doesn't work. I called .requestFocus(); on a button, and still the keyboard popups.

[Peter Lang]

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[Jeff Muir]

Setting the android:windowSoftInputMode in AndroidManifest.xml file can be ORed with other values. Mode typically implies single values but in this case, the value is a collection of flags. Description of values: Formats: flag Values: adjustNothing, adjustPan, adjustResize, adjustUnspecified, stateAlwaysHidden, stateAlwaysVisible, stateHidden, stateUnchanged, stateUnspecified, stateVisible Specify the default soft-input mode for the main window of this activity. A value besides "unspecified" here overrides any value in the theme.

[glez]

Didn't work for me. I put it in activity_main.xml. This worked perfect when I put it in onCreate(). getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT‌​_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN)‌​;

[Alberto M]

thoughts can be added as comments