I got a relative simple question. I have an activity with a lot of EditText's in them. When I open the activity it automatically focusses to the first EditText and displays the virtual keyboard.
How can I prevent this?
I got a relative simple question. I have an activity with a lot of EditText's in them. When I open the activity it automatically focusses to the first EditText and displays the virtual keyboard.
How can I prevent this?
Use this attributes in your layout tag in XML file:
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
As reported by other members in comments it doesn't works on ScrollView
therefore you need to add these attributes to the main child of ScrollView
.
You can add this to your Android Manifest activity:
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"
I have several implementations described here, but now i have added into the AndroidManifest.xml
for my Activity
the property:
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"
fragments
."stateAlwaysHidden" The soft keyboard is always hidden when the activity's main window has input focus.
If you have another view on your activity like a ListView
, you can also do:
ListView.requestFocus();
in your onResume() to grab focus from the editText
.
I know this question has been answered but just providing an alternative solution that worked for me :)
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11627976/5217837 This is almost correct:
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
}
But it should be SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN rather than SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE
Use this in your Activity's code:
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
}
I had a simular problem, even when switching tabs the keyboard popped up automatically and stayed up, with Android 3.2.1 on a Tablet. Use the following method:
public void setEditTextFocus(EditText searchEditText, boolean isFocused)
{
searchEditText.setCursorVisible(isFocused);
searchEditText.setFocusable(isFocused);
searchEditText.setFocusableInTouchMode(isFocused);
if (isFocused) {
searchEditText.requestFocus();
} else {
InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(searchEditText.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS );
}
}
In the onCreate() and in the onPause() of the activity for each EditText:
setEditTextFocus(myEditText, false);
For each EditText an OnTouchListener:
myEditText.setOnTouchListener(new EditText.OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
setEditTextFocus(myEditText, true);
return false;
}
});
For each EditText
in the OnEditorActionListener
:
myEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new EditText.OnEditorActionListener() {
@Override
public boolean onEditorAction(TextView arg0, int arg1, KeyEvent arg2) {
.......
setEditTextFocus(myEditText, false);
return false;
}
});
And for each EditText
in the layout xml
:
android:imeOptions="actionDone"
android:inputType="numberDecimal|numberSigned" // Or something else
There is probably more code optimizing possible.
((InputMethodManager)getActivity().getSystemService("input_method")).hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.edittxt.getWindowToken(), 0);
I have found this simple solution that worked for me.Set these attributes in your parent layout:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >
And now, when the activity starts this main layout will get focus by default.
Also, we can remove focus from child views at runtime by giving the focus to the main layout again, like this:
findViewById(R.id.mainLayout).requestFocus();
Hope it will work for you .
this is the solution I am using, is not the best solution but it's working well for me
editComment.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
editComment.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener(){
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event)
{
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
editComment.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
editComment.requestFocus() ;
return false;
}});
Interestingly, this documentation https://developer.android.com/training/keyboard-input/visibility.html states that when an activity starts and focus is given to a text field, the soft keyboard is not shown (and then goes on to show you how to have the keyboard shown if you want to with some code).
On my Samsung Galaxy S5, this is how my app (with no manifest entry or specific code) works -- no soft keyboard. However on a Lollipop AVD, a soft keyboard is shown -- contravening the doc given above.
If you get this behavior when testing in an AVD, you might want to test on a real device to see what happens.
This has some good answers at the following post : Stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup. The one I regularly use is the following code by Morgan :
<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"/>
<!-- :nextFocusUp and :nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component
to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -->
<AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/autotext"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:nextFocusUp="@id/autotext"
android:nextFocusLeft="@id/autotext"/>
NOTE : The dummy item has to be PLACED RIGHT BEFORE the focusable element.
And I think it should work perfectly even with ScrollView and haven't had any problems with accessibility either for this.
This occurs when your EditText automatically gets Focus as when you activity starts. So one easy and stable way to fix this, is simply to set the initial focus to any other view, such as a Button etc.
You can do this in your layout XML, no code required..
Accepted answer is not working for me, that's why give answer working solution, may be it is helpful !
EditText edt = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edt);
edt.requestFocus();
edt.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN , 0, 0, 0));
edt.dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent.obtain(SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), SystemClock.uptimeMillis(), MotionEvent.ACTION_UP , 0, 0, 0));
Now keyboard is open enjoy :)
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"
Working fine
Add below code to your top of the activity XML and make sure the View is above EditText
<View
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"/>
If your view has EditText and Listview then Keyboard will open up by default. To hide keyboard from popping up by default do the following
this.listView.requestFocus();
Make sure you are requesting focus on listview after getting view for editText.
For e.g.
this.listView = (ListView) this.findViewById(R.id.list);
this.editTextSearch = (EditText) this.findViewById(R.id.editTextSearch);
this.listView.requestFocus();
If you do it, then editText will get focus and keyboard will pop up.