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

Here's another variation on fje's answer that addresses the issues raised by sosite.

The idea here is to handle both the down and the up actions in the Activity's dispatchTouchEvent method. On the down action, we make note of the currently focused view (if any) and whether the touch was inside it, saving both those bits of info for later.

On the up action, we first dispatch, to allow another view to potentially take focus. If after that, the currently focused view is the originally focused view, and the down touch was inside that view, then we leave the keyboard open.

If the currently focused view is different than the originally focused view and it's an EditText, then we also leave the keyboard open.

Otherwise we close it.

So, to sum up, this works as follows:

• when touching inside a currently focused EditText, the keyboard stays open
• when moving from a focused EditText to another EditText, the keyboard stays open (doesn't close/reopen)
• when touching anywhere outside a currently focused EditText that is not another EditText, the keyboard closes
• when long-pressing in an EditText to bring up the contextual action bar (with the cut/copy/paste buttons), the keyboard stays open, even though the UP action took place outside the focused EditText (which moved down to make room for the CAB). Note, though, that when you tap on a button in the CAB, it will close the keyboard. That may or may not be desirable; if you want to cut/copy from one field and paste to another, it would be. If you want to paste back into the same EditText, it would not be.

• when the focused EditText is at the bottom of the screen and you long-click on some text to select it, the EditText keeps focus and therefore the keyboard opens like you want, because we do the "touch is within view bounds" check on the down action, not the up action.

  private View focusedViewOnActionDown;
  private boolean touchWasInsideFocusedView;
  
  
  @Override
  public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
      switch (ev.getAction()) {
          case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
              focusedViewOnActionDown = getCurrentFocus();
              if (focusedViewOnActionDown != null) {
                  final Rect rect = new Rect();
                  final int[] coordinates = new int[2];
  
                  focusedViewOnActionDown.getLocationOnScreen(coordinates);
  
                  rect.set(coordinates[0], coordinates[1],
                          coordinates[0] + focusedViewOnActionDown.getWidth(),
                          coordinates[1] + focusedViewOnActionDown.getHeight());
  
                  final int x = (int) ev.getX();
                  final int y = (int) ev.getY();
  
                  touchWasInsideFocusedView = rect.contains(x, y);
              }
              break;
  
          case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
  
              if (focusedViewOnActionDown != null) {
                  // dispatch to allow new view to (potentially) take focus
                  final boolean consumed = super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
  
                  final View currentFocus = getCurrentFocus();
  
                  // if the focus is still on the original view and the touch was inside that view,
                  // leave the keyboard open.  Otherwise, if the focus is now on another view and that view
                  // is an EditText, also leave the keyboard open.
                  if (currentFocus.equals(focusedViewOnActionDown)) {
                      if (touchWasInsideFocusedView) {
                          return consumed;
                      }
                  } else if (currentFocus instanceof EditText) {
                      return consumed;
                  }
  
                  // the touch was outside the originally focused view and not inside another EditText,
                  // so close the keyboard
                  InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =
                          (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                  inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(
                      focusedViewOnActionDown.getWindowToken(), 0);
                  focusedViewOnActionDown.clearFocus();
  
                  return consumed;
              }
              break;
      }
  
      return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
  }
  

Answer 2

Method for show / hide soft keyboard

InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) currentActivity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if (isShow) {
        if (currentActivity.getCurrentFocus() == null) {
            inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
        } else {
            inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(currentActivity.getCurrentFocus(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);    
        }

    } else {
        if (currentActivity.getCurrentFocus() == null) {
            inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS, 0);
        } else {
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromInputMethod(currentActivity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);    
        }

    }

I hope they have been useful

Answer 3

This is a slightly modified version of fje's answer which mostly worked perfectly.

This version uses ACTION_DOWN so performing a scroll action also closes the keyboard. It also doesn't propagate the event unless you click on another EditText. This means that clicking anywhere outside your EditText, even on another clickable, simply closes the keyboard.

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev)
{
    if(ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN)
    {
        final View view = getCurrentFocus();

        if(view != null)
        {
            final View viewTmp = getCurrentFocus();
            final View viewNew = viewTmp != null ? viewTmp : view;

            if(viewNew.equals(view))
            {
                final Rect rect = new Rect();
                final int[] coordinates = new int[2];

                view.getLocationOnScreen(coordinates);

                rect.set(coordinates[0], coordinates[1], coordinates[0] + view.getWidth(), coordinates[1] + view.getHeight());

                final int x = (int) ev.getX();
                final int y = (int) ev.getY();

                if(rect.contains(x, y))
                {
                    super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
                    return true;
                }
            }
            else if(viewNew instanceof EditText || viewNew instanceof CustomEditText)
            {
                super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
                return true;
            }

            final InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(viewNew.getWindowToken(), 0);

            viewNew.clearFocus();

            return true;
        }
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

Answer 4

Use OnFocusChangeListener.

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.

Answer 5

I implemented dispatchTouchEvent in Activity to do this:

private EditText mEditText;
private Rect mRect = new Rect();
@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    final int action = MotionEventCompat.getActionMasked(ev);

    int[] location = new int[2];
    mEditText.getLocationOnScreen(location);
    mRect.left = location[0];
    mRect.top = location[1];
    mRect.right = location[0] + mEditText.getWidth();
    mRect.bottom = location[1] + mEditText.getHeight();

    int x = (int) ev.getX();
    int y = (int) ev.getY();

    if (action == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN && !mRect.contains(x, y)) {
        InputMethodManager input = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        input.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

and I tested it, works perfect!

Answer 6

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.