Prevent EditText from automatically focusing

Question

I have an Android activity and there is one EditText in the whole layout. For some reason, whenever the activity starts, the keyboard comes up. I have tried

Answer 1

I know this is super old, but find that adding this to your root view in the XML file usually helps to prevent this issue:

 android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
 android:focusableInTouchMode="true"