android: don't show soft keyboard automatically [duplicate]

Question

I have following layout:

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/linearLayoutHolder"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:background="@android:color/white" >

    <EditText android:id="@+id/edit_message"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        android:layout_width="0dp"
        android:layout_height="50dp"
        android:inputType="textCapSentences"
        android:background="@android:color/transparent"
        android:hint="@string/edit_message"
        android:textColorHint="@android:color/darker_gray"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"/>

</LinearLayout>

This produces:

Now, when user presses the show background apps button at the bottom (as shown in above picture), and when user comes back to the app, the soft keyboard gets shown.

I don't want the soft keyboard to be shown in this case.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

In your AndroidManifest.xml, add the below attribute for the entry of this Activity:

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

It is not supposed to be written in your layout XML, but the AndroidManifest.xml.

To set more than one soft input modes, you can set it like:

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"

For more information, you can refer the documentation.