[android] Android on-screen keyboard auto popping up

One of my apps has an "opening screen" (basically a menu) that has an EditText followed by several Buttons. The problem is that several of my users are reporting that when they open the app it's automatically popping up the on-screen keyboard without them even touching the EditText. As far as I can tell, all of these users are using the HTC Hero.

Is this a bug in 1.5? Is there anything I can do about it?

If you are using fragments, you need to call hideKeyboard every time in onResume and onCreate if you want to hide the keyboard.

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        Log.d(TAG, "SectionMyFragment onResume");
        hideKeyboard();
    }

private void hideKeyboard() {
    if (getActivity() != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)
                getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

        if (inputMethodManager != null) {
            if (getActivity().getCurrentFocus() != null) {
                Log.d(TAG, "hideSoftInputFromWindow 1");
                inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow((getActivity().getCurrentFocus()).getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
    }
}

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)GetSystemService(Context.InputMethodService);
        imm.ShowSoftInput(_enterPin.FindFocus(), 0);

*This is for Android.xamarin and FindFocus()-it searches for the view in hierarchy rooted at this view that currently has focus,as i have _enterPin.RequestFocus() before the above code thus it shows keyboard for _enterPin EditText *

This code will work on all android versions:

@Override
 public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
     super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
     setContentView(R.layout.activity_login);

 //Automatic popping up keyboard on start Activity

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

 or

 //avoid automatically appear android keyboard when activity start
     getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
 }

You can do it programmatically like

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

or set android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" in <activity tag inside AndroidManifest.xml

Add this in your AndroidManifest.xml :

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"

It works perfectly. :)

In that version of Android, when a view is inflated, the focus will be set to the first focusable control by default - and if there's no physical keyboard, the on-screen keyboard will pop up.

To fix this, explicitly set focus somewhere else. If focus is set to anything other than an EditText, the on-screen keyboard will not appear.

Have you tried testing this by running Android 1.5 in the emulator?

You can use either this in the onCreate() method of the activity

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

or paste this code in the Activity tags in AndroidManifest.xml

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible"

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

This works for Android 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0 - Editor Used to Compile (Eclipse 3.7)

Place the 'windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"' in your application's manifest XML file for EACH activity that you wish for the software keyboard to remain hidden in. This means the keyboard will not come up automatically and the user will have to 'click' on a text field to bring it up. I searched for almost an hour for something that worked so I thought I would share.

Include this where the imports are on top:

import android.view.WindowManager;

Add this code on OnCreate part:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    ....
    getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
}

Add this in parent layout of the XML.

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

It ensures the focus isn't on the editText when the Activity starts.

You can add the single line of code in Android Mainfest.xml under activity tag

 <activity
        android:name="com.sams.MainActivity"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible" >
 </activity>

this may helps you.