Hide keyboard on activity start on SearchView not working

Question

I have a situation where I open SearchActivity and I want to have cursor in SearchView (keeping focus) while not showing keyboard at first. When and ONLY when user presses SearchView I want to show keyboard (cursor should be intact)

Answer 1

Add this below line in your activity.xml file's main layout

<LinearLayout
    ...
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    ...
   >