How to Hide keyboard when activity starts

Question

I have an activity with lots of edittext. whenever I load that activity, the keyboard appears and eats half of the screen which makes that activity's look bad. So is there any way to hide keyboard when I load that activity.

Possible duplicate of [How to hide Soft Keyboard when activity starts](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18977187/how-to-hide-soft-keyboard-when-activity-starts) — Hasan El-Hefnawy, Jul 11 '19 at 06:47

Mehul Ranpara · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-29T08:49:04.953

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in your onCreate() use this..

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

edited Aug 29 '14 at 08:49

answered Dec 10 '12 at 12:13

Mehul Ranpara

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@CautionContinues, SudiptaforAndroid,Amitabha Biswas. Thanks, Happy Coding.! – Mehul Ranpara Dec 17 '15 at 08:12

score 9 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 12 '18 at 04:39

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Add this two line in your activity's XML file in the RootLayout i.e. either relative or linear(whatever you have taken) :

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Add this line in activity manifests file

 android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

edited Sep 12 '18 at 04:39

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answered Dec 10 '12 at 12:14

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score 8 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 17 '15 at 11:24

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In your AndroidManifest.xml add the attribute android:windowSoftInputMode:

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

answered Jun 17 '15 at 11:24

Hoshouns

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 10 '12 at 12:10

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

answered Dec 10 '12 at 12:10

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 10 '12 at 12:11

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You can do this using intputmethodmangare... using the following code..

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(
      Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);

answered Dec 10 '12 at 12:11

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 08 '19 at 15:05

Put this code on the onCrete function:

new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() { @Override public void run() { InputMethodManager imm =(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0); view.clearFocus(); }}, 50);

where view is your EditText

The runnable is because the code might be executed before the editText is rendered.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Nov 09 '20 at 05:55

I created a method which I call in all the required Activity classes in the onCreate event. Worked for me in all scenarios.

public class ClassLib {
        public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
        //Hide keyboard
        activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
    }
}

How to Hide keyboard when activity starts

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