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

You can try this. It is working for me:

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM,
                     WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);

Answer 2

you can use This Code:

<EditText
    .
    .
    android:enabled="false"
    android:focusable="false"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
    android:inputType="numberPassword" />

Answer 3

Just thought it might be possible to extend EditText and handle the access to the softkeyboard through there and came across this question which has a very elegant solution to my problem.

Just followed the steps and this handled the softkeyboard perfectly for me. Hope it helps others that come across this issue.

Answer 4

In Whichever Edittext you need to disable the soft keyboard, add attribute in xml of that edit text.

<EditText android:id=".."
          ..
          android:focusable="false" />

It will stop the execution of soft keyboard.

Answer 5

Use the android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" in your activity in manifest file. This will work. Don't use the android:focusable="false" for EditText unless if you are not willing to input the text. If you want to give input then remove that property for the edittext in the layout file.

Answer 6

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.