Stop on screen keyboard appearing for Android Emulator?

Question

I am using the AVD manager in eclipse. Is there a setting that I can use to stop the on screen keyboard appearing when an input field has focus?

I tried has hardware keyboard = true, but then the emulator doesn't seem to start at all :-S

Answer 1

The item you probably need to add to the AVD config is: hw.keyboard=no.

Perhaps also changing the config to not have a touchscreen would help.

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Update:
Uh, I got that first part the completely wrong way around. I meant to say the device should have a physical keyboard, therefore negating the need for a soft keyboard.

Anyway, I tried it out now and this configuration combination works for me:

hw.keyboard=yes
hw.touchScreen=no

The AVD has a physical keyboard, but no touchscreen, therefore only the physical keyboard can be used for text input, and the emulator does not show the soft keyboard.