Stop setText() from showing Android soft keyboard on EditText

Question

Given EditText et;

When I programatically call et.setText("Hello World") a soft keyboard appears on the screen.

I want to prevent this soft keyboard from showing up. I don't mind if et remains focused or not.

I have tried et.clearFocus();

I still want to be able to focus on et and show the keyboard when tapping on it. Just not from et.setText()

Rainmaker · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-01T10:18:49.383

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You can use this code programmatically. But if you just want to display text use TextView

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

edited Mar 01 '18 at 10:18

answered Mar 01 '18 at 10:15

Rainmaker

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But I want the keyboard to still show when I tap on the `EditText` – Greg Peckory Mar 01 '18 at 10:17
Just remove the word ALWAYS from the plag (editted code) . The keyboard will be called if not you can enable it manually in onClickListener of your edittext – Rainmaker Mar 01 '18 at 10:22
Should this be called directly after `setText()`, because this won't work. Should there be a listener to detect when keyboard shows? – Greg Peckory Mar 01 '18 at 10:25
this should be called before setting text – Rainmaker Mar 01 '18 at 10:26

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 01 '18 at 10:14

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Add this to the manifest.xml to your <activity/> tag:-

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

like:-

<activity android:name=".YourActivity"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"></activity>

setText() wont show up the keyboard

answered Mar 01 '18 at 10:14

Santanu Sur

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But I want the keyboard to still show when I tap on the `EditText` – Greg Peckory Mar 01 '18 at 10:17
yes it will show up when you tap the keyboard... @GregPeckory – Santanu Sur Mar 01 '18 at 10:19
update if the answer works.. !! @GregPeckory – Santanu Sur Mar 01 '18 at 10:20
Keyboard never show now – Greg Peckory Mar 01 '18 at 10:22
it should show when you tap the editText.. i have used this in all of my apps !! @GregPeckory – Santanu Sur Mar 01 '18 at 10:23
this is the correct answer ! android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing" also works fine. – Martin Jäkel May 14 '19 at 13:47
You can also use `et.getText().clear()` and then `et.getText().append(...)`. This won't open soft keyboard like just callling `et.setText(...)` does. – Jokubas Trinkunas Aug 02 '20 at 17:46

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 01 '18 at 10:26

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You can prevent keyboard to display do like this

        et.setText("Hello World")
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(et.getWindowToken(), 0);

answered Mar 01 '18 at 10:26

SahdevRajput74

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Stop setText() from showing Android soft keyboard on EditText

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