How to hide soft keyboard on android after clickin

Question

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 EditText or the softKeyboard?

I tried 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 tried to implement a touch, click, focus listener without any success.

I even tried 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.

Answer 1

A more Kotlin & Material Design way using TextInputEditText (this approach is also compatible with EditTextView)...

1.Make the parent view(content view of your activity/fragment) clickable and focusable by adding the following attributes

android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:clickable="true"

2.Create an extension for all View (inside a ViewExtension.kt file for example) :

fun View.hideKeyboard(){
    val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.windowToken, 0)
}

3.Create a BaseTextInputEditText that inherit of TextInputEditText. Implement the method onFocusChanged to hide keyboard when the view is not focused :

class BaseTextInputEditText(context: Context?, attrs: AttributeSet?) : TextInputEditText(context, attrs){
    override fun onFocusChanged(focused: Boolean, direction: Int, previouslyFocusedRect: Rect?) {
        super.onFocusChanged(focused, direction, previouslyFocusedRect)
        if (!focused) this.hideKeyboard()
    }
}

4.Just call your brand new custom view in your XML :

<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
        android:id="@+id/textInputLayout"
        ...>

        <com.your_package.BaseTextInputEditText
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            ... />

    </android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout> 

That's all. No need to modify your controllers (fragment or activity) to handle this repetitive case.

Answer 2

There is a simpler approach, based on iPhone same issue. Simply override the background's layout on touch event, where the edit text is contained. Just use this code in the activity's OnCreate (login_fondo is the root layout):

    final LinearLayout llLogin = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.login_fondo);
    llLogin.setOnTouchListener(
            new OnTouchListener()
            {
                @Override
                public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent ev) {
                    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) mActivity.getSystemService(
                            android.content.Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mActivity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
                    return false;
                }
            });

Answer 3

I got one more solution to hide the 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 the soft keyboard.

Answer 4

This may be old but I got this working by implenting a custom class

public class DismissKeyboardListener implements OnClickListener {

    Activity mAct;

    public DismissKeyboardListener(Activity act) {
        this.mAct = act;
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        if ( v instanceof ViewGroup ) {
            hideSoftKeyboard( this.mAct );
        }
    }       
}

public void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
        getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
}

the best practice here is to create a Helper class and every container Relative / Linear Layouts should implement this.

**** Take note only the main Container should implement this class (For optimization) ****

and implement it like this :

Parent.setOnClickListener( new DismissKeyboardListener(this) ); 

the keyword this is for Activity. so if you are on fragment you use like getActivity();

---thumbs up if it help you... --- cheers Ralph ---

Answer 5

I have done this way:

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
   View view = getCurrentFocus();
   if (view != null && (ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP || ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) && view instanceof EditText && !view.getClass().getName().startsWith("android.webkit.")) {
            int scrcoords[] = new int[2];
            view.getLocationOnScreen(scrcoords);
            float x = ev.getRawX() + view.getLeft() - scrcoords[0];
            float y = ev.getRawY() + view.getTop() - scrcoords[1];
            if (x < view.getLeft() || x > view.getRight() || y < view.getTop() || y > view.getBottom())
                hideKeyboard(this);
        }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

Hide keyboard code:

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity act) {
    if(act!=null)
      ((InputMethodManager)act.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow((act.getWindow().getDecorView().getApplicationWindowToken()), 0);
  }

Done

Answer 6

I got this working with a slight variant on Fernando Camarago's solution. In my onCreate method I attach a single onTouchListener to the root view but send the view rather than activity as an argument.

        findViewById(android.R.id.content).setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {           
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            Utils.hideSoftKeyboard(v);
            return false;
        }
    });

In a separate Utils class is...

    public static void hideSoftKeyboard(View v) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
}