How to Stop Edittext from Gaining Focus When an Activity Starts in Android

How to stop EditText from gaining focus when an activity starts in Android?

Adding the tags android:focusableInTouchMode="true" and android:focusable="true" to the parent layout (e.g. LinearLayout or ConstraintLayout) like in the following example, will fix the problem.

<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:layout_width="0px" 
    android:layout_height="0px"/>

<!-- :nextFocusUp and :nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component
to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -->
<AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/autotext"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:nextFocusUp="@id/autotext" 
    android:nextFocusLeft="@id/autotext"/>

Disable auto focus on edit text

Add the android:focusable="true" and android:focusableInTouchMode="true" elements in the parent layout of EditText as follow;

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/linearLayout7" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

I think, it should help you.

See also;

    Android Developers official guide on handling touch and input

Android : clear focus on edittext when activity starts

If Come back from other activity edittext get focused. 

put these line onStart() or on onReusme()

  RelativeLayout focuslayout = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.RequestFocusLayout);
 focuslayout.requestFocus();

Stop Decimal EditText from gaining focus on startup

Add this to your activity tag in manifest

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"

Code looks like in manifest

 <activity
            android:name=".ActivityName"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize" />

This will help hide soft keyboard at startup

And add these tags to your root layout rather than parent layout

        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Stop EditText from bringing up the keyboard on Activity start?

Alternatively you can set the focus to the root layout element:

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

    <EditText
        android:inputType="text"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

</LinearLayout>

Remove auto focus from EditText

Try this use android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" in manifest file of your Activity

<activity
     android:name=".Youractivity"
     android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" />

EDIT

I have added two more line here

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

the above line is used for requesting focus rather than not focusing

why the on start activity - the focus is on my EditText and i can't remove it?

Add android:focusable="true" & android:focusableInTouchMode="true" to a parent element (LinearLayout/RelativeLayout/FrameLayout/..) of your layout. Because the first focusable element in hierarchy gains the focus the parent element will take it and it should resolve your problem.

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:focusable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:orientation="vertical">

        <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
            android:id="@+id/companyInputLayout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:errorTextAppearance="@style/error_appearance">

            <AutoCompleteTextView
                android:id="@+id/company"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:hint="@string/prompt_company"
                android:inputType="text"/>

        </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>

</LinearLayout>

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