One of my apps has an "opening screen" (basically a menu) that has an EditText followed by several Buttons. The problem is that several of my users are reporting that when they open the app it's automatically popping up the on-screen keyboard without them even touching the EditText. As far as I can tell, all of these users are using the HTC Hero.
Is this a bug in 1.5? Is there anything I can do about it?
In that version of Android, when a view is inflated, the focus will be set to the first focusable control by default - and if there's no physical keyboard, the on-screen keyboard will pop up.
To fix this, explicitly set focus somewhere else. If focus is set to anything other than an EditText, the on-screen keyboard will not appear.
Have you tried testing this by running Android 1.5 in the emulator?
You can use the following line of code to make sure the keyboard only pops up when a user clicks into an EditText
this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);