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?

I think the following may work

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

I've used it for this sort of thing before.

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 manifest 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>

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();
}

Just add this in your manifest.xml file

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

You are all done.

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)
}

> 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">

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);
}

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

like this :

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

Only this solution worked for me on API 26 & Kotlin

   override fun onResume() {
    window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)
    super.onResume()
}

or You can use focusable tag in xml.

android:focusable="false"

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