Hide soft keyboard on application load
In your AndroidManifest.xml:
<activity android:name="com.your.package.ActivityName" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" />More details about windowSoftInputMode can be found here.
This setting will hide soft keyboard when user enters new Activity (even if EditText control gains the focus). Soft keyboard will be shown only when user clicks the edit box control.
You can do something easier. Add this to the LinearLayout (or any other layout that is the root):
<LinearLayout...android:focusable="true"android:focusableInTouchMode="true".../>
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);This will hide in all situations (even when the EditView has focus):
EditText editView = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextConvertValue); editView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);