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How to hide Soft Keyboard when activity starts

I have an Edittext with android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible" in Manifest. Now the keyboard will be shown when I start the activity. How to hide it? I cannot use android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden because when keyboard is visible then minimize the app and resume it the keyboard should be visible.
I tried with

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible"

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);

but it did not work.

18 Answers
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Use the following functions to show/hide the keyboard:

/**
* Hides the soft keyboard
*/
public void hideSoftKeyboard() {
if(getCurrentFocus()!=null) {
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}
}

/**
* Shows the soft keyboard
*/
public void showSoftKeyboard(View view) {
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
view.requestFocus();
inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, 0);
}


In the AndroidManifest.xml:

<activity android:name="com.your.package.ActivityName"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" />


or try

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN)‌​;


Please check this also

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

Just add two attributes to the parent view of editText.

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


Put this in the manifest inside the Activity tag

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"


Try this:

<activity
...
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"
...
>


Look at this one for more details.

To hide the softkeyboard at the time of New Activity start or onCreate(),onStart() etc. you can use the code below:

onCreate()

onStart()

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


Add the following text to your xml file.

<!--Dummy layout that gain focus -->
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>


I hope this will work, I tried a lot of methods but this one worked for me in fragments. just put this line in onCreateview/init.

fragments

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


You can set config on AndroidManifest.xml

Example:

<activity
android:name="Activity"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
android:theme="@*android:style/Theme.NoTitleBar"
android:launchMode="singleTop"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"/>


To hide the softkeyboard at the time of New Activity start or onCreate(),onStart() method etc. use the code below:

getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.
LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);


To hide softkeyboard at the time of Button is click in activity:

View view = this.getCurrentFocus();

if (view != null) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
assert imm != null;
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}


Put this code your java file and pass the argument for object on edittext,

private void setHideSoftKeyboard(EditText editText){
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
}


Use the following code to Hide the softkeyboard first time when you start the Activity

getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.
LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);


This is what I did:

yourEditText.setCursorVisible(false); //This code is used when you do not want the cursor to be visible at startup
yourEditText.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {

@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
v.onTouchEvent(event); // handle the event first
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (imm != null) {

imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0); // hide the soft keyboard
yourEditText.setCursorVisible(true); //This is to display cursor when upon onTouch of Edittext
}
return true;
}
});


Try this.

First in your searchable xml the fields (name and hint etc) put @string and not literal strings.

@string

Then method onCreateOptionsMenu, it must have a ComponentName object with your package name and your completed class name (with package name) - In case activity which has the SearchView component is the same as the show search results use getComponentName(), as the google android developer says.

onCreateOptionsMenu

ComponentName

SearchView

getComponentName()

I tried a lot of solutions and after much,much work this solution works for me.

Try this one also

Ed_Cat_Search = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText_Searc_Categories);

Ed_Cat_Search.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Ed_Cat_Search.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
Ed_Cat_Search.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
Ed_Cat_Search.onTouchEvent(event); // call native handler
return true; // consume touch even
}
});


If your application is targeting Android API Level 21 or more than there is a default method available.

editTextObj.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false);


Make sure you have set below code in EditText XML tag.

EditText

<EditText
....
android:enabled="true"
android:focusable="true" />


Ed_Cat_Search = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText_Searc_Categories);

Ed_Cat_Search.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Ed_Cat_Search.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
Ed_Cat_Search.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
Ed_Cat_Search.onTouchEvent(event); // call native handler
return true; // consume touch even
}
});

this one worked for me


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


it will works

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