[java] Prevent the keyboard from displaying on activity start

I have an activity with an Edit Text input. When the activity is initialized, the Android keyboard is shown. How can the keyboard remain hidden until the user focuses the input?

Try this -

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

Alternatively,

1. you could also declare in your manifest file's activity -

<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name">
<activity android:name=".Main"
          android:label="@string/app_name"
          android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
          >

2. If you have already been using android:windowSoftInputMode for a value like adjustResize or adjustPan, you can combine two values like:

<activity
        ...
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan"
        ...
        >

This will hide the keyboard whenever appropriate but pan the activity view in case the keyboard has to be shown.

Hide it for all activities using the theme

<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme">
    <item name="android:windowSoftInputMode">stateHidden</item>
</style>

set the theme

<application android:theme="@style/MyTheme">

Add these two properties to your parent layout (ex: Linear Layout, Relative Layout)

android:focusable="false"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false" 

It will do the trick :)

Try to declare it in menifest file

<activity android:name=".HomeActivity"
      android:label="@string/app_name"
      android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"
      >

If you are using API level 21, you can use editText.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false);

Just Add in AndroidManifest.xml

<activity android:name=".HomeActivity"  android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden">
</activity>

Just add this in your manifest.xml file

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden">

You are all done.

You can also write these lines of code in the direct parent layout of the .xml layout file in which you have the "problem":

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    ...
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/myEditText"
        ...
        android:hint="@string/write_here" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button_ok"
        ...
        android:text="@string/ok" />
</LinearLayout>

EDIT :

Example if the EditText is contained in another layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    ... >                                            <!--not here-->

    ...    <!--other elements-->

    <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/theDirectParent"
        ...
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >        <!--here-->

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/myEditText"
            ...
            android:hint="@string/write_here" />

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button_ok"
            ...
            android:text="@string/ok" />
    </LinearLayout>

</ConstraintLayout>

The key is to make sure that the EditText is not directly focusable.
Bye! ;-)

Best solution for me, paste your class

@Override
public void onResume() {
    this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
    super.onResume();
}

@Override
public void onStart() {
    this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
    super.onStart();
}

Function to hide the keyboard.

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    View view = activity.getCurrentFocus();

    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

Hide keyboard in AndroidManifext.xml file.

<activity
    android:name=".MainActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden">

To expand upon the accepted answer by @Lucas:

Call this from your activity in one of the early life cycle events:

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

Kotlin Example:

override fun onResume() {
  super.onResume()

  window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN)
}

You can try this set unique attribute for each element

TextView mtextView = findViewById(R.id.myTextView);
mtextView.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false);

Keyboard will not show while element is focus

//to hide the soft keyboard
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);

just add this on your Activity:

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
      if (getCurrentFocus() != null) {
           InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
           imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
      }
      return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

or You can use focusable tag in xml.

android:focusable="false"

set it to false.here is the snippet of the code

declare this code( android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden") in manifest inside your activity tag .

like this :

<activity android:name=".MainActivity"
  android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden">