why does my android keyboard opens automatically?

Question

I have this Layout.
every time it's opened, the android keyboard appears

why is that?

how can I avoid this?

Answer 1

Add this to your manifest file, You can avoid that.

    <activity
        android:name="Your_Activity"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" >
    </activity>

Answer 2

If the EditText has requestFocus,then keyboard might display automatically. It has nothing to do with your xml code.

Add the following line to your Manifest File inside each Activity tab

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" 

or add the following to your parent layout in that activity

android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Answer 3

Strange ! I thought Screen which has editText only get focus.

Try this => Stop EditText from gaining focus at Activity startup

Answer 4

Android opens the OnScreenKeyboard automatically if you have an EditText focussed .

You can prevent that by adding following into your Activity's onCreate method.

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