Android: Disable soft keyboard at all EditTexts

Question

I am working on a dialog at Android with a few EditTexts. I've put this line at the onCreate() in order to disable the soft keyboard:

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

The problem is that it works only when the dialog appear and doing nothing. When I move to the next EditText, the keyboard appears and not going down.

Does anybody have an idea how to solve this issue?

Answer 1

Its been some time since this post, but here is a simple method which worked for me: in the xml, in the EditText properties, do: android:focusable="false". Now the keyboard will not popup even if the user clicks on it. This is useful if you are providing your own keypad.

Answer 2

by set EditText focusable->false, keyboard will not opened when clicked

<EditText
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:focusable="false" />

Answer 3

If you put the textViews in the view group you can make make the view get the focus before any of its descendants by using this:

view.setDescendantFocusability(view.FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS);

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

You can do that:

textView.setOnClickListener(null);

It will disable the keyboard to the textView and the click will not work anymore.

Answer 6

Call TextView.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false). This method is documented since API level 21, but it's already there since API level 16 (it's just hidden from JavaDoc). I use it with API level 16 in an AlertDialog in combination with dialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN).

In API level 14, there is a hidden method setSoftInputShownOnFocus() which seems to have the same purpose, but I have not tested that.

The advantage over InputType.TYPE_NULL is, that all the normal input types can be used (e.g. for password input) and the touch event positions the cursor at the correct spot within the text.