Prevent EditText from automatically focusing

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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?

To whoever is viewing this and considering flagging it as a duplicate, please don't. I've read through [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1555109/stop-edittext-from-gaining-focus-at-activity-startup) and have tried everything. — James Monger, Aug 23 '13 at 16:20

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 12 '16 at 16:30

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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)]

edited Nov 12 '16 at 16:30

Baris Demiray

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answered Jan 08 '14 at 11:14

Nitin V. Patil

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Thanks, you saved the day! No hacks, no overhead code, pure awesomeness. <3 – CodeMylife Feb 14 '19 at 20:58

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 23 '13 at 16:45

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

answered Aug 23 '13 at 16:45

kirankk

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 23 '13 at 16:25

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Add this to manifest file...

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

answered Aug 23 '13 at 16:25

Looking Forward

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 10 '13 at 10:35

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.

score 0 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 15 '18 at 08:43

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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"

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Prevent EditText from automatically focusing

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