Turn off soft input panel
Description
Get EditText to automatically have the focus, but you do not want the soft input panel (keyboard) to appear automatically which happens on a real device.
Example
To prevent the keyboard from appearing, add the following attribute to the <activity> element in the AndroidManifest.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest ...
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="4" />
<application
android:icon="@drawable/icon"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
>
<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>
</activity>
</application>
</manifest>
Note
The code above turns off the soft input panel by using the attribute
in <activity> tag as follows.
<activity
...
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
>