Question

how can I prevent the software keyboard to disappear until a specific EditText is choosen? I have several EditTexts in my Layout when it is opened the first is automatically selected and the software keyboard is shown.

I know i can disable this by setting android:focusable=”false”. But then it is impossible to click on the item and get the item displayed.

What I want: The activity is started and the user sees all EditTexts, then he clicks on one and the software keyboard opens and stuff can be entered in the EditText. Is this possible?

Answer 1

In your activity onCreate()

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