How do I prevent the software keyboard from popping up?

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I have my own keypad in my application so I want to hide the software keyboard all the time(in specific activities & dialogs). I experimented with two options:

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

This code prevent the keyboard from popping up at the beginning, but when I click on the textbox the keyboard still pops.

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

This code hide the keyboard, but it doesn't prevent the keyboard from popping up.

PLEASE HELP!

check out this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7289335/soft-keyboard-shows-up-on-edittext-focus-only-once/7291121#7291121 — Lalit Poptani, Oct 05 '11 at 18:12
thx but I am having a different issue there... I want to hide the keyboard from the very beginning and prevent it from popping up no matter what I do — Han, Oct 05 '11 at 18:32

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '11 at 14:19

8

Finally figured out!

I used

public void supressKeyboard() {
    getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); 
}

for the activities where I want to suppress the keyboard(you can put it in a general activity where all other activities inherit from)

But this won't prevent the keyboard from popping up when you click on the EditText textbox. What I did is I consumed the onTouch event for the text box:

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    return true;
}

answered Oct 06 '11 at 14:19

Han

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That is the technique I use too – castle1971 Jan 03 '12 at 12:55
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How do you get the cursor to show, or do you? Whenever I swallow the touch event it prevents the cursor from showing. – Ginger McMurray Mar 15 '12 at 19:32
This post is old, but... I was wondering, can you still type in with a hardware keyboard? – Danish Ashfaq Aug 21 '14 at 13:44

How do I prevent the software keyboard from popping up?

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