SearchView gains focus and opens keyboard when returning from another activity

Question

When I return from another activity to the main activity, the searchView gains focus and the keyboard opens, I managed to stop the keyboard from opening by using:

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

but this is not sufficient, if the actionbar drop down menu is opened and closed the keyboard reappears, because the searchView still has focus (remember I only closed the keyboard). I have tried to get a reference to the searchView and make it lose focus, but this has not worked.

So basically, I just want the searchView to never have focus or prompt the keyboard to open, unless the searchView text area is actually touched.

Answer 1

Leveraging on Adam S' answer, if you don't have any earlier View in the hierarchy before the SearchView, you could always include a dummy View like so:

<View
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"/>

<android.support.v7.widget.SearchView
    android:iconifiedByDefault="false"
    ... />

This also worked for me!