How to remove auto focus/keyboard popup of a field when the screen shows up?

Question

I have a screen where the first field is an EditText, and it gains the focus at startup, also popups the numeric input type, which is very annoying

How can I make sure that when the activity is started the focus is not gained, and/or the input panel is not raised?

Answer 1

have not tried this nor am i near my programming computer, but I would suspect programmatically sending focus to the parent view or something of that nature could do the trick - thats more likely a workaround than a solution, but again not able to test it just a thought