OnScreen keyboard opens automatically when Activity starts

Question

When my Activity with a ScrollView layout and EditTexts starts, the EditTexts get focus and the Android OnScreen keyboard opens.

How I can avoid that?

When I was using LinearLayout and RelativeLayout without the ScrollView it doesn't happen.

I've tried it this way, and it works, but it's not a good way to do it:

TextView TextFocus = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.MovileLabel);
TextFocus.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
TextFocus.requestFocus();

Next you have an example of some of my layouts with this problem, when this Activity starts, focus goes to the first EditText, Description and the Android keyboard opens automatically, this is very annoying.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView android:id="@+id/ScrollView01"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <LinearLayout 
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent" 
        android:padding="10px">

        <RelativeLayout
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/UserLabel" 
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginTop="13px"
                android:text="@string/userlabel"/>
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/User"
                android:layout_alignBaseline="@id/UserLabel"
                android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="test"/>
        </RelativeLayout>

        <View
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="1dip"
            android:background="#808080"
            android:layout_marginTop="5px"
            android:layout_marginBottom="12px"/>

        <RelativeLayout
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <TextView
            android:id="@+id/DescriptionLabel" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="@string/desclabel"
            android:layout_marginTop="13px"/>
            <EditText 
            android:id="@+id/Description"
            android:layout_alignBaseline="@id/DescriptionLabel"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:width="180px"/>
        </RelativeLayout>

        <RelativeLayout
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/EmailLabel" 
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/emaillabel"
                android:layout_marginTop="13px"/>
            <EditText 
                android:id="@+id/Email"
                android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/EmailLabel"
                android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:width="180px"/>
        </RelativeLayout>

        <RelativeLayout
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/MovilePhoneLabel"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/movilephonelabel"
                android:layout_marginTop="13px"/>
            <EditText 
                android:id="@+id/MovilePhone"
                android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/MovilePhoneLabel"
                android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:width="180px"/>
        </RelativeLayout>

        <View
            android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="1dip"
            android:background="#808080"
            android:layout_marginTop="5px"
            android:layout_marginBottom="10px"/>


        <RelativeLayout
            android:gravity="center_vertical"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <Button
                android:id="@+id/applybutton"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/apply"
                android:width="100px"
                android:layout_marginLeft="40dip"/>
            <Button
                android:id="@+id/cancelbutton"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="@string/cancel"
                android:width="100px"
                android:layout_alignBaseline="@+id/applybutton"
                android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
                android:layout_marginRight="40dip"/>
        </RelativeLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

Answer 1

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

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

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