Android App start with virtual keyboard open

Question

I am writing an app for android phones and after my splash screen it shows an activity which has several spinners and edittext views.

On an android device without a keyboard it shows the virtual keyboard which then blocks the rest of the app and looks unprofessional to me. I have tried to hide the virtual keyboard in the activity.onCreate method however no avail there.

My next option I tried was setting an onFocus listener to the actual offending edittext view and still no avail.

How can I prevent the virtual keyboard from showing until a user explicitly clicks an edittext view? Is there a way to give one of the spinner's focus since one of the spinners is before the edittext view in the layout xml?

Answer 1

You can try setting the android:windowSoftInputMode attribute of your Activity's entry in the AndroidManifest.xml file. I think setting it to stateHidden might do what you want.

Here's the docs from the Android site.

Answer 2

You can try this:

Oncreate of your activity, set the input type to TYPE_NULL. Then, onTouch, set it to TYPE_CLASS_TEXT.

    myText.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

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