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How to hide keyboard in Android?

how to hide soft keyboard on android after clicking outside EditText?

  • Ok everyone knows that to hide a keyboard you need to implement: InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService( INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0); But the big deal here is how to hide the keyboard when the user touches or selects any other place that is not an EditBox or the softKeyboard? I tryied to use the onTouchEvent on my parent Activity but that only works if user touches outside any other view and there is no scrollview. I tryed to implement a touch, click, focus listener without any success. I even tryed to implement my own scrollview to intercept touch events but i can only get the coordinates of the event and not the view clicked. Is there a standard way to do this?? in iPhone it was really easy.

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    Well I manage to somewhat solve the problem, I overrode the dispatchTouchEvent on my activity, there I am using the following to hide the keyboard. /** * Called to process touch screen events. */ @Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) { switch (ev.getAction()){ case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: touchDownTime = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime(); break; case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP: //to avoid drag events if (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - touchDownTime <= 150){ EditText[] textFields = this.getFields(); if(textFields != null && textFields.length > 0){ boolean clickIsOutsideEditTexts = true; for(EditText field : textFields){ if(isPointInsideView(ev.getRawX(), ev.getRawY(), field)){ clickIsOutsideEditTexts = false; break; } } if(clickIsOutsideEditTexts){ this.hideSoftKeyboard(); } } else { this.hideSoftKeyboard(); } } break; } return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev); } EDIT: The getFields() method is just a method that returns an array with the textfields in the view. To avoid creating this array on every touch, I created an static array called sFields, which is returned at the getFields() method. This array is initialized on the onStart() methods such as: sFields = new EditText[] {mUserField, mPasswordField}; It is not perfect, The drag event time is only based on heuristics so sometimes it doesnt hide when performing long clics, and I also finished by creating a method to get all the editTexts per view; else the keyboard would hide and show when clicking other EditText. Still, cleaner and shorter solutions are welcome

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Try to put stateHidden on as your activity windowSoftInputMode value http://developer.android.com/reference/android/R.attr.html#windowSoftInputMode For example for your Activity: this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);

Alex Volovoy

Use http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnFocusChangeListener.html. For example: editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() { @Override public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) { if (!hasFocus) { hideKeyboard(); } } }); Update: you also may override onTouchEvent() in your activity and check coordinates of the touch. If coordinates are outside of EditText, then hide the keyboard.

Sergey Glotov

Other idea is to override onInterceptTouchEvent method on the root view for your Activity. The touch event goes from the front most view on the screen (where the touch event occurred) down the stack of views calling the onTouch method until any of the views return true, indicating that the touch event was consumed. As many of the view consumes the touch event by default (that is the case of EditText or TextView, for instance), the event does not get to the Activity's root View onTouch method. But, before do this traversal, the touch event travels another path, going from the root view down the view tree until it gets to the front most view. This traversal is done by calling onInterceptTouchEvent. If the method returns true, it intercepts the event... nahhh, but that is a little bit trick, I don't think you want to do that nor to know the details. What you need to know is that you can override this method on the root view for your Activity, and put there the code to hide the keyboard when necessary.

Andre Luis IM

Hi i got one more solution to hide keyboard by : InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0); Here pass HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY at the position of showFlag and 0 at the position of hiddenFlag. It will forcefully close soft Keyboard.

Saurabh Pareek

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