Remove focus from EditText and also keep it editable

Question

I am using EditText but when Activity is started my EditText is already focused. I want to remove focus and also make it editable on click.

Here is the code of my edittext.

<EditText
            android:id="@+id/et_HotelLocation"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_margin="8dp"
            android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_edit_location_black_24dp"
            android:drawablePadding="8dp"/>

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 18 '16 at 19:45

Add the following two properties in parent Layout of the Edit text

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

if your edit text is inside linear layout you can do like this

<LinearLayout 
  android:focusable="true"
  android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

<EditText
            android:id="@+id/et_HotelLocation"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_margin="8dp"
            android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_edit_location_black_24dp"
            android:drawablePadding="8dp"/>
</LinearLayout>

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '16 at 11:12

You can create dummy layout as below which you should keep exactly above your EditText and then use nextFocusUp and nextFocusLeft as shown.

<LinearLayout
            android:focusable="true"
            android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
            android:layout_width="0px"
            android:layout_height="0px"/>

        <EditText

            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_margin="8dp"
             android:id="@+id/et"
            android:drawablePadding="8dp"
            android:nextFocusUp="@id/et"
            android:nextFocusLeft="@id/et"
            app:met_floatingLabel="normal" />

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

This question has already been responded here

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

Otherwise, declare in your manifest file's activity -
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon"
             android:label="@string/app_name">
<activity android:name=".Main"
     android:label="@string/app_name"
     android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
     >

Remove focus from EditText and also keep it editable

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