In my app, I have an EditText
. How do I make it doesn't start automatically? Like: once they open the activity it automatically sets the mouse to the EditText
and the keyboard gets opened so they type…
Is there anyway I can make it open (the keyboard shows and the user can type) when they clicks on it?
Ok, so from your question i figure out that your EditText is getting focus while starting the activity. You can disable the focus using following command to suppress the keyboard.
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
Visit this Close/hide the Android Soft Keyboard
the answer by Lucifer must work. But when i got the same problem, that solution did't work, and someone suggested me this.
add a fake layout as the first element in you parent layout and make it focusable.
Like this:
<ParentLayout
.....
......>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:background="@android:color/transparent"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >
</LinearLayout>
......
......
......
</ParentLayout>
This definitely works, but the best solution is:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);