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 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