android: get rid of focus when enter activity

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Stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup?

I have an activity has a EditText inside, and each time when the activity starts up, the EditText automatically get the focus.

I don't want the EditText gets the focus automatically, how can I do?

Paresh Mayani · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-10T10:59:34.023

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I had the similar issue and i am sure this is the problem, for that you just need to do a small trick.

Add this LinearLayout before the EditText which is getting focus at activity startup. You don't need to set any value inside the EditText.

<LinearLayout
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:layout_width="0dip" 
    android:layout_height="0dip"
    android:id="@+id/dummyView"/>

edited Oct 10 '11 at 10:59

answered Oct 10 '11 at 10:50

Paresh Mayani

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not very clear, can you repeat more precisely? Thanks! Should I set anything to the EditText? – Bin Chen Oct 10 '11 at 10:54
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just above the EditText, add this LinearLayout, and you don't need to do any changes for EditText, FYI, we have added this layout as a dummy so that it will get focus while starting of activity. – Paresh Mayani Oct 10 '11 at 11:00

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '11 at 10:52

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Add this in <activity> tag in your manifest for activity in which edittext is present.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

answered Oct 10 '11 at 10:52

anujprashar

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 01 '12 at 21:50

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put android:focusable="false" may it will work for edittext

edited Aug 01 '12 at 21:50

Luke

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answered Oct 10 '11 at 10:49

mathlearner

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yes its working i tested it on my application – mathlearner Oct 10 '11 at 10:51
then how can you get focused when want to some edit in it? – user370305 Oct 10 '11 at 10:57

android: get rid of focus when enter activity

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