How to stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup in Android

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I have an Activity in Android  with two elements    EditText  ListView   When my Activity starts  the EditText immediately has input focus  flashing cursor   I don t want any control to have input focus at startup  I tried   EditText setSelected false   EditText setFocusable false     No luck  How can I convince the EditText to not select itself when the Activity starts

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View current   getCurrentFocus     if  current    null       current clearFocus

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The simplest thing I did is to set focus on another view in onCreate       myView setFocusableInTouchMode true       myView requestFocus      This stopped the soft keyboard coming up and there was no cursor flashing in the EditText

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The only solution I ve found is   Create a LinearLayout  I don t know if other kinds of Layout s will work  Set the attributes android focusable  quot true quot  and android focusableInTouchMode  quot true quot   And the EditText won t get the focus after starting the activity

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Is the actual problem that you just don t want it to have focus at all   Or you don t want it to show the virtual keyboard as a result of focusing the EditText   I don t really see an issue with the EditText having focus on start  but it s definitely a problem to have the softInput window open when the user did not explicitly request to focus on the EditText  and open the keyboard as a result    If it s the problem of the virtual keyboard  see the AndroidManifest xml  lt activity gt  element documentation   android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden  - always hide it when entering the activity   or android windowSoftInputMode  stateUnchanged  - 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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Write this code inside Manifest file in the Activity where you do not want to open the keyboard   android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden    Manifest file     lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt manifest xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      package  com example projectt      android versionCode  1      android versionName  1 0   gt        lt uses-sdk         android minSdkVersion  8          android targetSdkVersion  24    gt        lt application         android allowBackup  true          android icon   drawable ic launcher          android label   string app name          android theme   style AppTheme   gt            lt activity             android name   Splash              android label   string app name   gt               lt intent-filter gt                   lt action android name  android intent action MAIN    gt                    lt category android name  android intent category LAUNCHER    gt               lt  intent-filter gt           lt  activity gt           lt activity             android name   Login                android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden                android label   string app name   gt           lt  activity gt        lt  application gt    lt  manifest gt

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EditText within a ListView does not work properly  It s better to use TableLayout with automatically generated rows when you are using EditText

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Being that I don t like to pollute the XML with something that is related to functionality  I created this method that  transparently  steals the focus from the first focusable view and then makes sure to remove itself when necessary   public static View preventInitialFocus final Activity activity        final ViewGroup content    ViewGroup activity findViewById android R id content       final View root   content getChildAt 0       if  root    null  return null      final View focusDummy   new View activity       final View OnFocusChangeListener onFocusChangeListener   new View OnFocusChangeListener                  Override         public void onFocusChange View view  boolean b                        view setOnFocusChangeListener null               content removeView focusDummy                        focusDummy setFocusable true       focusDummy setFocusableInTouchMode true       content addView focusDummy  0  new LinearLayout LayoutParams 0  0        if  root instanceof ViewGroup                final ViewGroup  root    ViewGroup root          for  int i   1  children    root getChildCount    i  lt  children  i                          final View child    root getChildAt i               if  child isFocusable      child isFocusableInTouchMode                                  child setOnFocusChangeListener onFocusChangeListener                   break                                    else if  root isFocusable      root isFocusableInTouchMode            root setOnFocusChangeListener onFocusChangeListener        return focusDummy

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When your activity is opened  keyboard gets visible automatically which causes focusing of EditText  You can disable keyboard by writing the following line in your activity tag in manifest xml file    android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden adjustPan

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You can specify focus to some other widget by using request focus and use the keyboard hiding code as well

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Make sure to remove the line   lt requestFocus   gt   from the EditText tag in xml    lt EditText    android id    id input     android layout width  fill parent     android layout height  wrap content  gt       lt requestFocus   gt   lt  -- remove this line -- gt    lt  EditText gt

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Try this before your first editable field    lt TextView           android id    id dummyfocus           android layout width  fill parent          android layout height  wrap content           android text   string foo            gt   ----  findViewById R id dummyfocus  setFocusableInTouchMode true   findViewById R id dummyfocus  requestFocus

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try  edit setInputType InputType TYPE NULL    edit setEnabled false

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I clear all focus with submit button  XML file    lt LinearLayout     android id    id linear layout  android focusableInTouchMode  true  gt     1  make this focusableInTouchMode     lt  LinearLayout gt    JAVA file   private LinearLayout mLinearLayout     2  parent layout element private Button mButton   mLinearLayout   findViewById R id linear layout   mButton   findViewById R id button    mButton setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                  Override             public void onClick View v                    mLinearLayout requestFocus       3  request focus                              I hope this helps you

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This is the perfect and most easiest solution I always use this in my app                           getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN

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A simpler solution exists  Set these attributes in your parent layout    lt RelativeLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android      android id    id mainLayout      android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants      android focusableInTouchMode  true   gt    And now  when the activity starts this main layout will get focus by default   Also  we can remove focus from child views at runtime  e g   after finishing child editing  by giving the focus to the main layout again  like this   findViewById R id mainLayout  requestFocus      Good comment from Guillaume Perrot      android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants  seems to be the   default  integer value is 0   It works just by adding   android focusableInTouchMode  true     Really  we can see that the beforeDescendants set as default in the ViewGroup initViewGroup   method  Android 2 2 2   But not equal to 0  ViewGroup FOCUS BEFORE DESCENDANTS   0x20000   Thanks to Guillaume

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using the information provided by other posters  I used the following solution   in the layout XML   lt  -- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -- gt   lt LinearLayout     android id    id linearLayout focus      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true      android layout width  0px      android layout height  0px   gt    lt  -- AUTOCOMPLETE -- gt   lt AutoCompleteTextView     android id    id autocomplete      android layout width  200dip      android layout height  wrap content      android layout marginTop  20dip      android inputType  textNoSuggestions textVisiblePassword   gt    in onCreate    private AutoCompleteTextView mAutoCompleteTextView  private LinearLayout mLinearLayout    Override protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState       setContentView R layout mylayout          get references to UI components     mAutoCompleteTextView    AutoCompleteTextView  findViewById R id autocomplete       mLinearLayout    LinearLayout  findViewById R id linearLayout focus       and finally  in onResume     Override protected void onResume         super onResume           do not give the editbox focus automatically when activity starts     mAutoCompleteTextView clearFocus        mLinearLayout requestFocus

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I use the following code to stop an EditText from stealing the focus when my button is pressed   addButton setOnClickListener new OnClickListener         public void onClick View v            View focused   internalWrapper getFocusedChild            focused setVisibility GONE           v requestFocus            addPanel            focused setVisibility VISIBLE               Basicly  hide the edit text and then show it again  This works for me as the EditText is not in view so it doesn t matter whether it is showing   You could try hiding and showing it in succession to see if that helps it lose focus

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If you have another view on your activity like a ListView  you can also do   ListView requestFocus       in your onResume   to grab focus from the editText   I know this question has been answered but just providing an alternative solution that worked for me

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Do this and get your job done   android focusable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true

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I had tried several answers individually but the focus is still at the EditText  I only managed to solve it by using two of the below solution together    lt RelativeLayout xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android    android id    id mainLayout    android descendantFocusability  beforeDescendants    android focusableInTouchMode  true   gt      Reference from Silver https   stackoverflow com a 8639921 15695    and remove    lt requestFocus   gt    at EditText     Reference from floydaddict https   stackoverflow com a 9681809

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If you want to hide the keyboard at the start of the activity  Then mention  android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden   To that activity in the manifest file  Problem gets solved   Cheers

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You can achieve this by creating a dummy EditText with layout width and height set to 0dp  and request focus to that view  Add the following code snippet in your xml layout    lt EditText     android id    id editText0      android layout width  0dp      android layout height  0dp      android hint   string dummy      android ems  10        gt        lt requestFocus   gt       lt  EditText gt

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Lots of working answers already provided but I think we can do a little better by using the below simple method   set focus to input field private fun focusHere         findViewById lt TextView gt  R id input  requestFocus      in place of input in R id input use any other view id to set focus to that view

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Try clearFocus   instead of setSelected false    Every view in Android has both focusability and selectability  and I think that you want to just clear the focus

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Late  but maybe helpful  Create a dummy EditText at the top of your layout then call myDummyEditText requestFocus   in onCreate     lt EditText android id    id dummyEditTextFocus   android layout width  0px  android layout height  0px    gt    That seems to behave as I expect  No need to handle configuration changes  etc  I needed this for an Activity with a lengthy TextView  instructions

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Excellent answers from Luc and Mark however a good code sample is missing  Adding the tag android focusableInTouchMode  true  and android focusable  true  to parent layout  e g  LinearLayout or ConstraintLayout  like the following example will fix the problem    lt  -- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -- gt   lt LinearLayout     android focusable  true       android focusableInTouchMode  true      android layout width  0px       android layout height  0px   gt    lt  --  nextFocusUp and  nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -- gt   lt AutoCompleteTextView android id    id autotext      android layout width  fill parent       android layout height  wrap content      android nextFocusUp   id autotext       android nextFocusLeft   id autotext   gt

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At onCreate of your Activity  just add use clearFocus   on your EditText element  For example   edittext    EditText  findViewById R id edittext   edittext clearFocus      And if you want to divert the focus to another element  use requestFocus   on that  For example   button    Button  findViewById R id button   button requestFocus

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The problem seems to come from a property that I can only see in the XML form of the layout   Make sure to remove this line at the end of the declaration within the EditText XML tags    lt requestFocus   gt    That should give something like that     lt EditText    android id    id emailField     android layout width  fill parent     android layout height  wrap content     android inputType  textEmailAddress  gt         lt requestFocus   gt      lt -- without this line     lt  EditText gt

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Simple and reliable solution   just override this method     Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev        View v   getCurrentFocus         if  v    null  amp  amp               ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION UP    ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION MOVE   amp  amp              v instanceof EditText  amp  amp               v getClass   getName   startsWith  android webkit               int scrcoords     new int 2           v getLocationOnScreen scrcoords           float x   ev getRawX     v getLeft   - scrcoords 0           float y   ev getRawY     v getTop   - scrcoords 1            if  x  lt  v getLeft      x  gt  v getRight      y  lt  v getTop      y  gt  v getBottom                hideKeyboard this             return super dispatchTouchEvent ev      public static void hideKeyboard Activity activity        if  activity    null  amp  amp  activity getWindow      null  amp  amp  activity getWindow   getDecorView      null            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  activity getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow activity getWindow   getDecorView   getWindowToken    0

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Add following in onCreate method   this getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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Yeah I did the same thing - create a  dummy  linear layout which gets initial focus  Furthermore  I set the  next  focus IDs so the user can t focus it any more after scrolling once    lt LinearLayout  dummy  gt   lt EditText et gt   dummy setNextFocusDownId et getId      dummy setNextFocusUpId et getId      et setNextFocusUpId et getId       a lot of work just to get rid of focus on a view     Thanks

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set focus to top level window    disposes descendant focus     disposes softInput        public static void topLevelFocus Context context       if Activity class isAssignableFrom context getClass              ViewGroup tlView    ViewGroup    Activity  context  getWindow   getDecorView            if tlView  null               tlView setFocusable true               tlView setFocusableInTouchMode true               tlView setDescendantFocusability ViewGroup FOCUS BEFORE DESCENDANTS

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Add android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden  in the activity tag of the Manifest xml file   Source

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You can just set  focusable  and  focusable in touch mode  to value true on the first TextView of the layout  In this way when the activity starts the TextView will be focused but   due to its nature  you will see nothing focused on the screen and  of course  there will be no keyboard displayed

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Disable it in onCreate     final KeyListener edtTxtMessageKeyListener   edtTxtMessage getKeyListener    edtTxtMessage setCursorVisible false   edtTxtMessage setKeyListener null        And finally enable it in onClick   of EditText   edtTxtMessage setCursorVisible true   edtTxtMessage setKeyListener edtTxtMessageKeyListener     But the problem is with we have to click twise to bring OnScreenKeyboard for very first time    Workaround  InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getActivity   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm toggleSoftInput InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT  0     Try this also in onClick

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remove lt requestFocus   gt  from your edit text in xml file   lt EditText    android id    id emailField     android layout width  fill parent     android layout height  wrap content     android inputType  textEmailAddress  gt          lt requestFocus   gt       lt -- remove this tags     lt  EditText gt

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The following will stop edittext from taking focus when created  but grab it when you touch them    lt EditText     android id    id et bonus custom      android focusable  false    gt    So you set focusable to false in the xml  but the key is in the java  which you add the following listener   etBonus setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener          Override     public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event            v setFocusable true           v setFocusableInTouchMode true           return false              Because you are returning false  i e  not consuming the event  the focusing behavior will proceed like normal

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You have edit text and list  In OnStart On Create  you should set focus on list view  Listview requestfocus

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The following worked for me in Manifest  Write     lt activity android name   MyActivity  android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden   gt

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lt TextView     android id    id TextView01      android layout width  fill parent      android layout height  wrap content      android layout weight  1      android singleLine  true      android ellipsize  marquee      android marqueeRepeatLimit  marquee forever      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true      style   android style Widget EditText   gt

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I had an issue like this and it was due to my selector   The first state was focus even thogh my view was disabled it took the focus state since it was the first one that matched and used it   you can set the first state to disabled like this    lt selector xmlns android  http   schemas android com apk res android  gt     lt item android drawable   drawable text field disabled  android state enabled  false   gt   lt item android drawable   drawable text field focused  android state focused  true   gt   lt item android drawable   drawable text field normal   gt

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It can be achieved by inheriting EditText and overriding onTouchEvent   class NonFocusableEditText  EditText        constructor context  Context   super context      constructor context  Context  attrs  AttributeSet    super context  attrs      constructor context  Context  attrs  AttributeSet   defStyleAttr  Int   super context  attrs  defStyleAttr       override fun onTouchEvent event  MotionEvent    Boolean           return if  isFocusable  super onTouchEvent event  else false           Then you can use it in the layouts like normal EditText    lt com yourpackage NonFocusableEditText         android id    id editText          android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content              android hint   string your hint          android imeOptions  actionDone          android inputType  textNoSuggestions    gt

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add below line in Manifest file where you have mentioned your activity  android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden

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Late but simplest answer  just add this in parent layout of the XML   android focusable  true   android focusableInTouchMode  true    Upvote if it helped you   Happy Coding

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I needed to clear focus from all fields programmatically  I just added the following two statements to my main layout definition   myLayout setDescendantFocusability ViewGroup FOCUS BEFORE DESCENDANTS   myLayout setFocusableInTouchMode true     That s it  Fixed my problem instantly  Thanks  Silver  for pointing me in the right direction

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For me  what worked on all devices is this        lt  -- fake first focusable view  to allow stealing the focus to itself when clearing the focus from others -- gt        lt View     android layout width  0px      android layout height  0px      android focusable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true    gt    Just put this as a view before the problematic focused view  and that s it

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Write this line in your Parent Layout      android focusableInTouchMode  true

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Simple solution  In AndroidManifest in Activity tag use  android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden

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None of this solutions worked for me  The way I fix the autofocus was    lt activity android name   android InviteFriendsActivity  android windowSoftInputMode  adjustPan  gt       lt intent-filter  gt       lt  intent-filter gt   lt  activity gt

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Simply add android focusableInTouchMode  true  in parent layout of EditText and you will get rid of this awkward behavior

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The easiest way is to add android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden  in the activity tag of the Manifest xml file

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lt EditText     android layout width  match parent      android layout height  100dp      android id    id etComments      android hint  Comments        android textSize  14dp       android focusable  false       android textStyle  italic   gt

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Easiest way to hide keyboard is using setSoftInputMode   getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN     or you can use InputMethodManager and hide keyboard like this   InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow myEditText getWindowToken    0

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