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

The simplest thing I did is to set focus on another view in onCreate:

    myView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
    myView.requestFocus();

This stopped the soft keyboard coming up and there was no cursor flashing in the EditText.