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

protected void hideSoftKeyboard(EditText input) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(input.getWindowToken(), 0);    
}

Answer 2

Simple and Easy to use method, just call hideKeyboardFrom(YourActivity.this); to hide keyboard

/**
 * This method is used to hide keyboard
 * @param activity
 */
public static void hideKeyboardFrom(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Answer 3

Alternatively to this all around solution, if you wanted to close the soft keyboard from anywhere without having a reference to the (EditText) field that was used to open the keyboard, but still wanted to do it if the field was focused, you could use this (from an Activity):

if (getCurrentFocus() != null) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Answer 4

Above answers work for different scenario's but If you want to hide the keyboard inside a view and struggling to get the right context try this:

setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        hideSoftKeyBoardOnTabClicked(v);
    }
}

private void hideSoftKeyBoardOnTabClicked(View v) {
    if (v != null && context != null) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getApplicationWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

and to get the context fetch it from constructor:)

public View/RelativeLayout/so and so (Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    this.context = context;
    init();
}

Answer 5

use this

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
            WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Answer 6

Also useful for hiding the soft-keyboard is:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
    WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN
);

This can be used to suppress the soft-keyboard until the user actually touches the editText View.