How to keep soft keyboard from opening on activity launch in Android?

Question

In an Android app, whenever the activity launches, the textbox gets the focus and the soft keyboard pops up automatically. I have tried to stop this by using following line

Answer 1

You can use the following line of code to make sure the keyboard only pops up when a user clicks into an EditText

Java

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); 

Kotlin

window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)

And

You need to add

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

to your activity tag in the AndroidManifest.xml file.

Answer 2

Does the following work?

// Find editor
EditText editWindowInstance = this.findViewById(R.id.MyEditWindow);

// close soft keyboard 
((InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow(editWindowInstance.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS); 

Answer 3

You can put this code in your Activity.onCreate: this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

But I found that the most reliable and clean way was to simply set the focus onto to a different view, in your activity XML Layout

<Button
  android:id="@+id/mybutton">
  <requestFocus />
</Button>

Answer 4

This will work perfectly, try this

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

And add the following to your manifest.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"

cheers enjoy coding....

Answer 5

The following code works for me

((InputMethodManager) iClockActivity
                    .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
                    .showSoftInput(textView, 0);

Answer 6

I know this is old but maybe it will help someone in the future...

I haven't seen anyone suggest "stateHidden"

From the Android docs - android:windowSoftInputMode

Your manifest file would look like:

<activity
    ...
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"
    ...
>