How to disable Android Soft Keyboard for a particular activity?

Question

I have an activity with one EditText where I need to input numbers only.

Now, I have defined the Input Type for my EditText to be number only and have drawn up a pretty

Answer 1

If you are using for example ViewGroup it allows you to block the soft keyboard using this method:

view.setDescendantFocusability(view.FOCUS_BLOCK_DESCENDANTS);

Thanks to this the view will get focus before any of its descendants.