How to disable keypad popup when on edittext?

Question

In my app the first view of all my screens is an EditText, so every time i go to a screen the onscreen keypad pops up. how can i disable this popingup and enable it when manually clicked on the EditText????

    eT = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.searchAutoCompleteTextView_feed);

    eT.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {

        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {

            if(hasFocus){
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(eT.getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
    });

xml code:

<ImageView
    android:id="@+id/feedPageLogo"
    android:layout_width="45dp"
    android:layout_height="45dp"
    android:src="@drawable/wic_logo_small" />

<Button
    android:id="@+id/goButton_feed"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
    android:text="@string/go" />

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/searchAutoCompleteTextView_feed"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/goButton_feed"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@id/feedPageLogo"
    android:hint="@string/search" />

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/feedLabel"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_below="@id/feedPageLogo"
    android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
    android:text="@string/feed"
    android:textColor="@color/white" />

<LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/ButtonsLayout_feed"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" >

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/feedButton_feed"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:layout_margin="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:text="@string/feed"
        android:textColor="@color/black" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/iWantButton_feed"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:layout_margin="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:text="@string/iwant"
        android:textColor="@color/black" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/shareButton_feed"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:layout_margin="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:text="@string/share"
        android:textColor="@color/black" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/profileButton_feed"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="30dp"
        android:layout_margin="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:background="@color/white"
        android:text="@string/profile"
        android:textColor="@color/black" />
</LinearLayout>

<ListView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/feedListView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_above="@id/ButtonsLayout_feed"
    android:layout_below="@id/feedLabel"
    android:textSize="15dp" >
</ListView>

the third view (EditText) is where the focus is.

Answer 1

The best solution lies in the Project Manifest file (AndroidManifest.xml), add the following attribute in the activity construct

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

---

Example:

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

Description:

• The state of the soft keyboard — whether it is hidden or visible — when the activity becomes the focus of user attention.
• The adjustment made to the activity's main window — whether it is resized smaller to make room for the soft keyboard or whether its contents pan to make the current focus visible when part of the window is covered by the soft keyboard.

Introduced in:

• API Level 3.

Link to the Docs

Note: Values set here (other than "stateUnspecified" and "adjustUnspecified") override values set in the theme.

Answer 2

You have to create a view, above the EditText, that takes a 'fake' focus:

Something like :

<!-- Stop auto focussing the EditText -->
<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:background="@android:color/transparent"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true">
</LinearLayout>

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/searchAutoCompleteTextView_feed"
    android:layout_width="200dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:inputType="text" />

In this case, I used a LinearLayout to request the focus. Hope this helps.

This worked perfectly...thanks to Zaggo0

Answer 3

     edittext.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false);

Now you can use any custom keyboard you like.

Answer 4

People have suggested many great solutions here, but I used this simple technique with my EditText (nothing in java and AnroidManifest.xml is required). Just set your focusable and focusableInTouchMode to false directly on EditText.

 <EditText
        android:id="@+id/text_pin"
        android:layout_width="136dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_margin="5dp"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:inputType="numberPassword"
        android:password="true"
        android:textSize="24dp"
        android:focusable="false"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="false"/>

My intent here is to use this edit box in App lock activity where I am asking user to input the PIN and I want to show my custom PIN pad. Tested with minSdk=8 and maxSdk=23 on Android Studio 2.1

Answer 5

Add below code on your activity class.

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);

Keyboard will pop-upped when user clicks on the EditText

Answer 6

You can use following code for disabling OnScreen Keyboard.

InputMethodManager im = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
im.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);

Answer 7

Two Simple Solutions:

First Solution is added below line of code in manifest xml file. In Manifest file (AndroidManifest.xml), add the following attribute in the activity construct

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

Example:

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

Second Solution is adding below line of code in activity

//Block auto opening keyboard  
  this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

We can use any one solution of above. Thanks

Answer 8

Declare the global variable for InputMethodManager:

 private InputMethodManager im ;

Under onCreate() define it:

 im = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
 im.hideSoftInputFromWindow(youredittext.getWindowToken(), 0);

Set the onClickListener to that edit text inside oncreate():

 youredittext.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        im.showSoftInput(youredittext, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
    }
});

This will work.

Answer 9

Use the following code, write it under onCreate()

InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager)
                                   getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),
                                   InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);         
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);

Answer 10

try it.......i solve this problem using code:-

EditText inputArea;
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
inputArea = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.inputArea);

//This line is you answer.Its unable your click ability in this Edit Text
//just write
inputArea.setInputType(0);
}

nothing u can input by default calculator on anything but u can set any string.

try it

Answer 11

Well, I had the same problem and I just tackled with focusable in the XML file.

<EditText
            android:cursorVisible="false"
            android:id="@+id/edit"
            android:focusable="false"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

You probably are looking for security also. This will help in that also.

Answer 12

Thanks @A.B for good solution

    android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

this case if you will disable keyboard in edit text , just add android:focusableInTouchMode="false" in edittext tagline.

work for me in Android Studio 3.0.1 minsdk 16 , maxsdk26

Answer 13

Try With this:

EditText yourEditText= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourEditText); 
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
imm.showSoftInput(yourEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT); 

To close, you can use:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
 imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(yourEditText.getWindowToken(), 0); 

Try it like this in your code:

ed = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.editText1);

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);  
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(ed.getWindowToken(), 0);  

ed.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    public void onClick(View v) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);  
        imm.showSoftInput(ed, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);  
    }
});

Answer 14

Only thing you need to do is that add android:focusableInTouchMode="false" to the EditText in xml and thats all.(If someone still needs to know how to do that with the easy way)

Answer 15

Use following code in your onCreate() method-

    editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);
    editText.requestFocus();
    editText.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            keyboard.hideSoftInputFromWindow(
                    editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }, 200);

Answer 16

       <TextView android:layout_width="match_parent"
                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"

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

                <requestFocus/>
      </TextView>

      <EditText android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Answer 17

If you are using Xamarin you can add this

Activity[(WindowSoftInputMode = SoftInput.StateAlwaysHidden)]

thereafter you can add this line in OnCreate() method

youredittext.ShowSoftInputOnFocus = false;

If the targeted device does not support the above code, you can use the code below in EditText click event

InputMethodManager Imm = (InputMethodManager)this.GetSystemService(Context.InputMethodService);
Imm.HideSoftInputFromWindow(youredittext.WindowToken, HideSoftInputFlags.None);

Answer 18

I found the following pattern to work well for me in code where I want to show a dialog to get the input (e.g., the string displayed in the text field is the result of selections made from a list of checkboxes in a dialog, rather than text entered via the keyboard).

1. Disable soft input focus on the edit field. I can't disable for the entire activity, as there are edit fields I do want the keyboard to be used for in the same layout.

2. Initial clicks in the text field yield a focus change, a repeated click yields a click event. So I override both (here I don't refactor the code out to illustrate both handlers do the same thing):

   tx = (TextView) m_activity.findViewById(R.id.allergymeds);
   if (tx != null) {
       tx.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false);
       tx.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
           @Override
           public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean hasFocus) {
               if (hasFocus) {
                   MedicationsListDialogFragment mld = new MedicationsListDialogFragment();
                   mld.setPatientId(m_sess.getActivePatientId());
                   mld.show(getFragmentManager(), "Allergy Medications Dialog");
               }
           }
       });
       tx.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
           @Override
           public void onClick(View view) {
               MedicationsListDialogFragment mld = new MedicationsListDialogFragment();
               mld.setPatientId(m_sess.getActivePatientId());
               mld.show(getFragmentManager(), "Allergy Medications Dialog");
           }
       });
   }
   

Answer 19

In a Android app I was building, I had three EditTexts in a LinearLayout arranged horizontally. I had to prevent the soft keyboard from appearing when the fragment loaded. In addition to setting focusable and focusableInTouchMode to true on the LinearLayout, I had to set descendantFocusability to blocksDescendants. In onCreate, I called requestFocus on the LinearLayout. This prevented the keyboard from appearing when the fragment is created.

Layout -

    <LinearLayout
       android:id="@+id/text_selector_container"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:weightSum="3"
       android:orientation="horizontal"
       android:focusable="true"
       android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
       android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"
       android:background="@color/black">

       <!-- EditText widgets -->

    </LinearLayout>

In onCreate - mTextSelectorContainer.requestFocus();

Answer 20

If anyone is still looking for the easiest solution, set the following attribute to true on your parent layout

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Example:

<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

.......
......
</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

Answer 21

Use This to enable and disable EditText....

InputMethodManager imm;

imm = (InputMethodManager)
getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

if (isETEnable == true) {

    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);
    ivWalllet.setImageResource(R.drawable.checkbox_yes);
    etWalletAmount.setEnabled(true);
    etWalletAmount.requestFocus();
    isETEnable = false;
    } 
else {

    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY,0);
    ivWalllet.setImageResource(R.drawable.checkbox_unchecked);
    etWalletAmount.setEnabled(false);
    isETEnable = true;
    }

Answer 22

For Xamarin Users:

[Activity(MainLauncher = true, 
        ScreenOrientation = ScreenOrientation.Portrait, 
        WindowSoftInputMode = SoftInput.StateHidden)] //SoftInput.StateHidden - disables keyboard autopop

Answer 23

Try this answer,

editText.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);

Note: only for API 11+

Answer 24

private InputMethodManager imm;

...


editText.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        v.onTouchEvent(event);
        hideDefaultKeyboard(v);
        return true;
    }
});

private void hideDefaultKeyboard(View et) {
  getMethodManager().hideSoftInputFromWindow(et.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

private InputMethodManager getMethodManager() {
        if (this.imm == null) {
            this.imm = (InputMethodManager)  getContext().getSystemService(android.content.Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        }
  return this.imm;
}

Answer 25

Try below lines of code when you want to hide keyboard on screen on any event. It worked for me.

context.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN );

final InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

if (inputMethodManager.isAcceptingText())       inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(context.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);

Answer 26

for any textview at your activity (or create fake empty textfiew with android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="0dp" ) and add for this textview next: android:textIsSelectable="true"

Answer 27

Just remove the <request focus/> tag from the xml file.

Answer 28

Just need to add property android:focusable="false" in particular EditText in the layout xml. Then you can write click listner for EditText without keypad popup.

Answer 29

It issue can be sorted by using, No need to set editText inputType to any values, just add the below line, editText.setTextIsSelectable(true);