How to disable keyboard pop-up (Soft Input Method) on clicking the Edit Text in your Android App?

In this video it shows the code to hide the soft input method (key-board defined in Android OS) when any of the input widget, such as Edit Text (Plain Text) is clicked in the Android App.

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Complete source code and other details:

package com.programmerworld.keyboarddiableedittext;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;
import android.widget.EditText;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private EditText editText;
    private InputMethodManager inputMethodManager;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        editText = findViewById(R.id.editText);
        editText.setFocusable(false);
        inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    }

    public void editTextClickMethod(View view){
        // Both will work:
//        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getRootView().getWindowToken(), 0);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(),0);
    }
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText"
        android:layout_width="234dp"
        android:layout_height="103dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="88dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="60dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:onClick="editTextClickMethod"
        android:text="Name"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

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