Question

In my application I have an activity that has an edittext in it, when the activity launches the edit text automatically is given a selected state and the keyboard appears immediately, the problem here is when this happens other parts of the activity the user sees become hidden, what I would like is that when the activity starts there is no focus on the edittext so that user can view other elements on the page and then decide if they would like to select the edittext and launch the keyboard, any help would go a long way thanks!

Answer 1

use android:windowSoftInputMode=”stateHidden” in your manifest.xml file as

<activity android:name=".YourActivity" android:label="" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"/>

hope this help