Hi You're not using a Hero by any chance, are you?
Try putting this into your Manifest for that activity: android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" That may, or may not be what you're after, but look at the documentation for that attribute for further information on controlling the IME's behaviour. On Mar 4, 4:38 am, brucko <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone have an idea as to what determines whether the soft > keyboard will be opened with an EditText. > > I have a single Edit Text, in a RelativeLayout, that has an attached > onEditorActionListener which for some strange reason grabs focus and > opens the soft keyboard whenever the activity is started. Essentially, > I do not want the EditText to be focussed or the keyboard opened until > the user touches it. For a start it steals all my screen real-estate. > > I am unable to make any other View take focus away from the EditText > programatically. > > If I make the EditText unfocussable in onCreate() then the keyboard > does not open. If I make it focussable again later in the code, say > onResume(), the keyboard opens. Removing the listener makes no > difference. > > Am I missing something?. > > Frankly I am starting to get sick of buggy Android and the constant > workarounds required. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
