Prevent the keyboard from displaying on activity start

Question

I have an activity with an Edit Text input. When the activity is initialized, the Android keyboard is shown. How can the keyboard remain hidden until the user

Answer 1

Function to hide the keyboard.

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    View view = activity.getCurrentFocus();

    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

Hide keyboard in AndroidManifext.xml file.