How to hide Android soft keyboard on EditText

Question

I have an Activity with some EditText fields and some buttons as a convenience for what normally would be used to populate those fields. However when we the user touches on

Answer 1

The soft keyboard kept rising even though I set EditorInfo.TYPE_NULL to the view. None of the answers worked for me, except the idea I got from nik431's answer:

editText.setCursorVisible(false);
editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);
editText.setFocusable(false);