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 all of the following things:

• Placing these two in OnStart:

  FindViewById<EditText> (Resource.Id.searchText).ClearFocus ();
  FindViewById<EditText> (Resource.Id.searchText).Selected = false;
  

• Adding a LinearLayout with these two properties:

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

• Adding the following tag inside another View on the layout:

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

• Adding this to my activity manifest:

  android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
  

But still, the keyboard opens when the activity opens. What could I be doing wrong?

Answer 1

Try this -this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Answer 2

Try these for Xamarin.Android (Cross Platform)

this.Window.SetSoftInputMode (SoftInput.StateHidden);

Or

Add this to manifest,

[Activity(Label = "SampleApp", MainLauncher = true, Icon = "@drawable/icon", WindowSoftInputMode = SoftInput.StateHidden)]

Answer 3

Add this to manifest file...

<activity android:name=".YourActivity" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"  />

Answer 4

Android by default targets the first focusable object. Whilst kirankk's answer works for standard activities, if you're using a DialogFragment with a custom view, the much easier option (which incidentally also works for standard activities) is to make the ViewGroup (ie LinearLayout/RelativeLayout) that your text view is contained in focusable and focusable in touch mode. This can be done from the AXML and prevents the TextView being the first focusable view.

Answer 5

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"