Close/hide the Android Soft Keyboard

Question

I have an EditText and a Button in my layout.

After writing in the edit field and clicking on the Button, I want to hide the virtual keyboard. I assume that this is a simple piece of code, but where can I find an example of it?

Answer 1

Just use this optimized code in your activity:

if (this.getCurrentFocus() != null) {
    InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}

Answer 2

from so searching, here I found an answer that works for me

// Show soft-keyboard:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

// Hide soft-keyboard:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Answer 3

Meier's solution works for me too. In my case the top level of my App is a tabHost and I want to hide the keyword when switching tabs - I get the window token from the tabHost View.

tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {
    public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(tabHost.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

Answer 4

I'm using a custom keyboard to input an Hex number so I can't have the IMM keyboard show up...

In v3.2.4_r1 setSoftInputShownOnFocus(boolean show) was added to control weather or not to display the keyboard when a TextView gets focus, but its still hidden so reflection must be used:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR2) {
    try {
        Method method = TextView.class.getMethod("setSoftInputShownOnFocus", boolean.class);
        method.invoke(mEditText, false);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // Fallback to the second method
    }
}

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For older versions, I got very good results (but far from perfect) with a OnGlobalLayoutListener, added with the aid of a ViewTreeObserver from my root view and then checking if the keyboard is shown like this:

@Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
    Configuration config = getResources().getConfiguration();

    // Dont allow the default keyboard to show up
    if (config.keyboardHidden != Configuration.KEYBOARDHIDDEN_YES) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mRootView.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

This last solution may show the keyboard for a split second and messes with the selection handles.

When in the keyboard enters full screen, onGlobalLayout isn't called. To avoid that, use TextView#setImeOptions(int) or in the TextView XML declaration:

android:imeOptions="actionNone|actionUnspecified|flagNoFullscreen|flagNoExtractUi"

Update: Just found what dialogs use to never show the keyboard and works in all versions:

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM,
        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);

Answer 5

Here's how you do it in Mono for Android (AKA MonoDroid)

InputMethodManager imm = GetSystemService (Context.InputMethodService) as InputMethodManager;
if (imm != null)
    imm.HideSoftInputFromWindow (searchbox.WindowToken , 0);

Answer 6

You can force Android to hide the virtual keyboard using the InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow, passing in the token of the window containing your focused view.

// Check if no view has focus:
View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

This will force the keyboard to be hidden in all situations. In some cases you will want to pass in InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY as the second parameter to ensure you only hide the keyboard when the user didn't explicitly force it to appear (by holding down menu).

Note: If you want to do this in Kotlin, use: context?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager