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

My test result:

with setInputType:

editText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

the soft keyboard disappears, but the cursor will also disappear.

with setShowSoftInputOnFocus:

editText.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false)

It works as expected.