How to hide Soft Keyboard when activity starts

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I have an Edittext with android windowSoftInputMode  stateVisible  in Manifest  Now the keyboard will be shown when I start the activity  How to hide it  I cannot use android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden because when keyboard is visible then minimize the app and resume it the keyboard should be visible   I tried with   InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0    but it did not work

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Just add two attributes to the parent view of editText   android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true

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add in your activity in manifasts  this property   android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden

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Above answers are also correct  I just want to give a brief that there s two ways to hide the keyboard when starting the activity  from manifest xml   eg    lt activity            android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden               gt     The above way always hide it when entering the activity    or    lt activity            android windowSoftInputMode  stateUnchanged               gt     This one says don t change it  e g  don t show it if it isn t already shown  but if it was open when entering the activity  leave it open

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Try this    lt activity             android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden adjustResize           gt    Look at this one for more details

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You can set config on AndroidManifest xml  Example    lt activity     android name  Activity      android configChanges  orientation keyboardHidden      android theme    android style Theme NoTitleBar      android launchMode  singleTop      android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden   gt

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Use the following code to Hide the softkeyboard first time when you start the Activity  getActivity   getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager  LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN

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Use SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN instead of SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN   this getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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To hide the softkeyboard at the time of New Activity start or onCreate   onStart   method etc  use the code below   getActivity   getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager  LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN     To hide softkeyboard at the time of Button is click in activity   View view   this getCurrentFocus         if  view    null            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           assert imm    null          imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0

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Try this   First in your searchable xml the fields  name and hint etc  put  string and not literal strings   Then method onCreateOptionsMenu  it must have a ComponentName object with your package name and your completed class name  with package name  - In case  activity which has the SearchView component is the same as the show search results use getComponentName    as the google android developer says   I tried a lot of solutions and after much much work this solution works for me

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Add the following text to your xml file    lt  --Dummy layout that gain focus -- gt               lt LinearLayout                 android layout width  0dp                  android layout height  0dp                  android focusable  true                  android focusableInTouchMode  true                  android orientation  vertical   gt               lt  LinearLayout gt

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If your application is targeting Android API Level 21 or more than there is a default method available   editTextObj setShowSoftInputOnFocus false     Make sure you have set below code in EditText XML tag    lt EditText                android enabled  true      android focusable  true    gt

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I hope this will work  I tried a lot of methods but this one worked for me in fragments  just put this line in onCreateview init   getActivity   getWindow   setSoftInputMode      WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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Use the following functions to show hide the keyboard          Hides the soft keyboard     public void hideSoftKeyboard         if getCurrentFocus    null            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE           inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0                   Shows the soft keyboard     public void showSoftKeyboard View view        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE       view requestFocus        inputMethodManager showSoftInput view  0

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If you don t want to use xml  make a Kotlin Extension to hide keyboard     In onResume  call this myView hideKeyboard    fun View hideKeyboard         val inputMethodManager   context getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager     inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow windowToken  0      Alternatives based on use case   fun Fragment hideKeyboard         view  let   activity  hideKeyboard it       fun Activity hideKeyboard            Calls Context hideKeyboard     hideKeyboard currentFocus    View this      fun Context hideKeyboard view  View        view hideKeyboard       How to show soft keyboard  fun Context showKeyboard        Or View showKeyboard       val inputMethodManager   context getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager     inputMethodManager toggleSoftInput SHOW FORCED  HIDE IMPLICIT ONLY      Simpler method when simultaneously requesting focus on an edittext  myEdittext focus    fun View focus         requestFocus       showKeyboard       Bonus simplification   Remove requirement for ever using getSystemService  Splitties Library     Simplifies above solution to just inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow windowToken  0

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Put this in the manifest inside the  Activity tag    android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden

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Ed Cat Search    EditText  findViewById R id editText Searc Categories    Ed Cat Search setInputType InputType TYPE NULL    Ed Cat Search setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener         public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event            Ed Cat Search setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT           Ed Cat Search onTouchEvent event      call native handler         return true     consume touch even            this one worked for me

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Try this one also  Ed Cat Search    EditText  findViewById R id editText Searc Categories    Ed Cat Search setInputType InputType TYPE NULL    Ed Cat Search setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener         public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event            Ed Cat Search setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT           Ed Cat Search onTouchEvent event      call native handler         return true     consume touch even

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Put this code your java file and pass the argument for object on edittext   private void setHideSoftKeyboard EditText editText       InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE       imm hideSoftInputFromWindow editText getWindowToken    0

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To hide the softkeyboard at the time of New Activity start or onCreate   onStart   etc  you can use the code below   getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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Using AndroidManifest xml   lt activity android name   YourActivityName        android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden       gt    Using Java  getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN     using the above solution keyboard hide but edittext from taking focus when activiy is created  but grab it when you touch them using   add in your EditText   lt EditText android focusable  false    gt    also add listener of your EditText  youredittext setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener      Override public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event        v setFocusable true       v setFocusableInTouchMode true       return false

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getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN     it will works

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This is what I did    yourEditText setCursorVisible false     This code is used when you do not want the cursor to be visible at startup         yourEditText setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener                   Override             public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event                    v onTouchEvent event        handle the event first                 InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager v getContext   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                   if  imm    null                         imm hideSoftInputFromWindow v getWindowToken    0       hide the soft keyboard                     yourEditText setCursorVisible true     This is to display cursor when upon onTouch of Edittext                                   return true

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In the AndroidManifest xml    lt activity android name  com your package ActivityName            android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden     gt    or try  getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN       Please check this also

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