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

None of the solutions worked for me. Finally a very easy solution worked like magic. Add these two lines in your parent layout.

android:focusable="true" 
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"