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

Question

I have an Activity in Android, with two elements:

1. EditText
2. ListView

When my Activity

Answer 1

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.