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

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:

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