How to hide Android soft keyboard on EditText

Question

I have an Activity with some EditText fields and some buttons as a convenience for what normally would be used to populate those fields   However when we the user touches one of the EditText fields the Android soft keyboard automatically appears   I want it to remain hidden by default  unless the user long presses the menu button   I have search for a solution to this and found several answers  but so far I can t get them to work   I have tried the following   1 - In the onCreate method   this getWindow   setSoftInputMode WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN     2 - Also in the onCreate method   InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow editText getWindowToken    InputMethodManager HIDE IMPLICIT ONLY     3 - and fIn the Manifest file    lt activity android name   activityName  android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden   gt    None of these methods work   Whenever the user clicks on the EditText field  the soft keyboard appears   I only want the soft keyboard to appear if the user explicitly shows it by long pressing the menu key   Why isn t this working

User · Answer

After long time looking into TextView class I found a way to prevent keyboard to appears. The trick is hide it right after it appears, so I searched a method that is called after keyboard appear and hide it.

Implemented EditText class

public class NoImeEditText extends EditText {

    public NoImeEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    /**
     * This method is called before keyboard appears when text is selected.
     * So just hide the keyboard
     * @return
     */
    @Override
    public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor() {
        hideKeyboard();

        return super.onCheckIsTextEditor();
    }

    /**
     * This methdod is called when text selection is changed, so hide keyboard to prevent it to appear
     * @param selStart
     * @param selEnd
     */
    @Override
    protected void onSelectionChanged(int selStart, int selEnd) {
        super.onSelectionChanged(selStart, selEnd);

        hideKeyboard();
    }

    private void hideKeyboard(){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

and style

<com.my.app.CustomViews.NoImeEditText
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:editable="false"
    android:background="@null"
    android:textSize="@dimen/cell_text" />

User · Answer

My test result   with setInputType   editText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL     the soft keyboard disappears  but the cursor will also disappear   with setShowSoftInputOnFocus    editText setShowSoftInputOnFocus false    It works as expected

User · Answer

public class NonKeyboardEditText extends AppCompatEditText        public NonKeyboardEditText Context context  AttributeSet attrs            super context  attrs               Override     public boolean onCheckIsTextEditor             return false            and add  NonKeyboardEditText setTextIsSelectable true

User · Answer

Let s try to set the below properties in your xml for EditText   android focusableInTouchMode  true  android cursorVisible  false     if you want to hide the softkeypad at launching activity please go through this link

User · Answer

Three ways based on the same simple instruction   a   Results as easy as locate  1    android focusableInTouchMode  true    among the configuration of any precedent element in the layout  example   if your whole layout is composed of    lt ImageView gt    lt EditTextView gt    lt EditTextView gt    lt EditTextView gt    then you can write the  1  among ImageView parameters and this will grab android s attention to the ImageView instead of the EditText   b   In case you have another precedent element than an ImageView you may need to add  2  to  1  as   android focusable  true    c   you can also simply create an empty element at the top of your view elements    lt LinearLayout   android focusable  true    android focusableInTouchMode  true    android layout width  0px    android layout height  0px    gt    This alternative until this point results as the simplest of all I ve seen  Hope it helps

User · Answer

Hello Use this code it is working 100  for me  EditText ee new EditText this   ee setShowSoftInputOnFocus false      But you want to just hide keyboard on edittext click given below code will work but keyboard icon and upward sign of back-button will create  Given code is like this          EditText ee new EditText this    create edittext         final   View OnTouchListener disable  new View OnTouchListener             public boolean onTouch  View v  MotionEvent event            v onTouchEvent event           InputMethodManager img             InputMethodManager v getContext   getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE           if  img    null            img hideSoftInputFromWindow v getWindowToken   0                     return true                                 call touch listener        ee setOnTouchListener disable     Use also it in case of text-changing listener          EditText ee  new EditText this           Text new TextWatcher              Override         public void beforeTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int count  int          after            InputMethodManager img    InputMethodManager           getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE           img hideSoftInputFromWindow ee getWindowToken    0                        Override         public void onTextChanged CharSequence s  int start  int before  int count             InputMethodManager img    InputMethodManager           getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE           img hideSoftInputFromWindow ee getWindowToken    0                      Override         public void afterTextChanged Editable s            InputMethodManager img    InputMethodManager           getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE           img hideSoftInputFromWindow ee getWindowToken    0                                ee addTextChangedListener Text     Use it also in case of onclick listener   EditText ee new EditText this    ee setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener      public void onClick View v      InputMethodManager img   InputMethodManager getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE    img hideSoftInputFromWindow ee getWindowToken   0            All the code will work but for me first code is best

User · Answer

Simply Use  EditText setFocusable false   in activity  or  use in xml  android focusable  false

User · Answer

Simply use below method    private fun hideKeyboard activity  Activity  editText  EditText        editText clearFocus        activity getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager  hideSoftInputFromWindow editText windowToken  0

User · Answer

Hide the keyboard  editText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL     Show Keyboard  etData setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT   etData setFocusableInTouchMode true     in the parent layout  android focusable  false

User · Answer

There seems to be quite a variety of ways of preventing the system keyboard from appearing  both programmatically and in xml  However  this is the way that has worked for me while supporting pre API 11 devices      prevent system keyboard from appearing if  android os Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   11        editText setRawInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT       editText setTextIsSelectable true     else       editText setRawInputType InputType TYPE NULL       editText setFocusable true

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I sometimes use a bit of a trick to do just that  I put an invisible focus holder somewhere on the top of the layout  It would be e g  like this    lt EditText android id   id editInvisibleFocusHolder            style   style InvisibleFocusHolder   gt    with this style   lt style name  InvisibleFocusHolder  gt       lt item name  android layout width  gt 0dp lt  item gt       lt item name  android layout height  gt 0dp lt  item gt       lt item name  android focusable  gt true lt  item gt       lt item name  android focusableInTouchMode  gt true lt  item gt       lt item name  android inputType  gt none lt  item gt   lt  style gt    and then in onResume I would call      editInvisibleFocusHolder setInputType InputType TYPE NULL       editInvisibleFocusHolder requestFocus      That works nicely for me from 1 6 up to 4 x

User · Answer

The soft keyboard kept rising even though I set EditorInfo TYPE NULL to the view  None of the answers worked for me  except the idea I got from nik431 s answer   editText setCursorVisible false   editText setFocusableInTouchMode false   editText setFocusable false

User · Answer

You need to add the following attribute for the Activity in your AndroidManifest xml    lt activity             android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden adjustResize            gt

User · Answer

The following line is exactly what is being looked for  This method has been included with API 21  therefore it works for API 21 and above   edittext setShowSoftInputOnFocus false

User · Answer

This will help you  editText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL     Edit    To show soft keyboard  you have to write following code in long key press event of menu button  editText setInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT               editText requestFocus                InputMethodManager mgr    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               mgr showSoftInput editText  InputMethodManager SHOW FORCED

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weekText    EditText  layout findViewById R id weekEditText   weekText setInputType InputType TYPE NULL

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