How to hide soft keyboard on android after clicking outside EditText

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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

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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);
}

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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

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Instead of iterating through all the views or overriding dispatchTouchEvent   Why Not just override the onUserInteraction   of the Activity this will make sure keyboard dismisses whenever the user taps outside of EditText   Will work even when EditText is inside the scrollView    Override public void onUserInteraction         if  getCurrentFocus      null            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0

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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

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Just override below code in Activity   Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev        if  getCurrentFocus      null            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0             return super dispatchTouchEvent ev      UPDATE  In case someone needs the Kotlin version of this answer  override fun dispatchTouchEvent ev  MotionEvent    Boolean       if  currentFocus    null            val imm  InputMethodManager               getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager         imm hideSoftInputFromWindow currentFocus   windowToken  0            return super dispatchTouchEvent ev

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I modified the answer  navneeth-g a bit  adding null activity focus processing  avoiding multiple instance creation OnTouchListener  remove focus when keyboard is hiding  and removed hiding the keyboard when the screen scrolls  convenient on small devices    In general  the view parameter is root layout fun Activity hideKeyboardOnClickOutsideEditText view  View           Set up touch listener for non-text box views to hide keyboard      var previousAction   0     val onTouchListener   View OnTouchListener   v  event - gt          if  currentFocus    null              amp  amp  event action    MotionEvent ACTION DOWN              amp  amp  event action    MotionEvent ACTION MOVE              amp  amp  previousAction    MotionEvent ACTION MOVE                         currentFocus  clearFocus               v  hideKeyboard                     previousAction   event action         false            if  view  is EditText            view setOnTouchListener onTouchListener               If a layout container  iterate over children and seed recursion      if  view is ViewGroup            for  i in 0 until view childCount                val innerView   view getChildAt i              hideKeyboardOnClickOutsideEditText innerView                          in root layout xml android clickable  quot true quot  android focusable  quot true quot  android focusableInTouchMode  quot true quot

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A more Kotlin   amp  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       lt android support design widget TextInputLayout         android id    id textInputLayout              gt            lt com your package BaseTextInputEditText             android layout width  match parent              android layout height  wrap content                    gt        lt  android support design widget TextInputLayout gt     That s all  No need to modify your controllers  fragment or activity  to handle this repetitive case

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Well  You can use this code  Use your Main Layout Id instead of  mainRelativeLayout      hide Soft keyboard on click outside  the input text     findViewById R id mainRelativeLayout  setOnClickListener new  View OnClickListener              Override         public void onClick View v                InputMethodManager im    InputMethodManager   getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE               im hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken     0

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Plea  I recognize I have no clout  but please take my answer seriously      Problem  Dismiss soft keyboard when clicking away from keyboard or edit text with minimal code   Solution  External library known as Butterknife   One Line Solution    OnClick R id activity signup layout  public void closeKeyboard       InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0       More Readable Solution    OnClick R id activity signup layout   public void closeKeyboard             InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0       Explanation   Bind OnClick Listener to the activity s XML Layout parent ID  so that any click on the layout  not on the edit text or keyboard  will run that snippet of code which will hide the keyboard   Example   If your layout file is R layout my layout and your layout id  is R id my layout id  then your Butterknife bind call should look like     OnClick R id my layout id   public void yourMethod       InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE       imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0       Butterknife Documentation Link  http   jakewharton github io butterknife   Plug  Butterknife will revolutionize your android development   Consider it   Note  The same result can be achieved without the use of external library Butterknife   Just set an OnClickListener to the parent layout as described above

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Well I manage to somewhat solve the problem  I overrode the dispatchTouchEvent on my activity  there I am using the following to hide the keyboard           Called to process touch screen events        Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev         switch  ev getAction             case MotionEvent ACTION DOWN              touchDownTime   SystemClock elapsedRealtime                break           case MotionEvent ACTION UP                to avoid drag events             if  SystemClock elapsedRealtime   - touchDownTime  lt   150                      EditText   textFields   this getFields                    if textFields    null  amp  amp  textFields length  gt  0                        boolean clickIsOutsideEditTexts   true                       for EditText field   textFields                           if isPointInsideView ev getRawX    ev getRawY    field                                clickIsOutsideEditTexts   false                              break                                                                       if clickIsOutsideEditTexts                           this hideSoftKeyboard                                                           else                       this hideSoftKeyboard                                                break             return super dispatchTouchEvent ev         EDIT  The getFields   method is just a method that returns an array with the textfields in the view  To avoid creating this array on every touch  I created an static array called sFields  which is returned at the getFields   method  This array is initialized on the onStart   methods such as   sFields   new EditText    mUserField  mPasswordField      It is not perfect  The drag event time is only based on heuristics so sometimes it doesnt hide when performing long clics  and I also finished by creating a method to get all the editTexts per view  else the keyboard would hide and show when clicking other EditText   Still  cleaner and shorter solutions are welcome

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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

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you can implement View onClickListener and override onClick method and set this onclicklistener to the Layout  ConstraintLayout constraintLayout  public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity implements View OnClickListener   Override     protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState            super onCreate savedInstanceState           setContentView R layout activity main           constraintLayout   findViewById R id layout           constraintLayout setOnClickListener this      Override     public void onClick View v            if v getId    R id layout               InputMethodManager inm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               inm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken   0

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I find the accepted answer bit complex for this simple requirement  Here s what worked for me without any glitch    findViewById R id mainLayout  setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener              Override         public boolean onTouch View view  MotionEvent motionEvent                InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0               return false

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You can try the way below  it works great for me       This way can be applied for Activity or Fragment and it s also compatible with ScrollView     We put ScrollView as a top-level layout  declare id parentView for the LinearLayout inside and add two attributes like below     android id    id parentView  android clickable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true    In code  write a function like below     public static void hideSoftKeyboard  Activity activity            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  activity getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE           inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow activity getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0           Then register an OnFocusChangeListener for the root view  write in onCreate method  to make all EditText in Activity affected   parentLayout setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener                  Override             public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                    if  hasFocus                        hideSoftKeyboard your activity name this

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Override     public boolean onTouchEvent MotionEvent event            InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context                  INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0           return true

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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

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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  amp  amp   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

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Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent event  in any Activity  or extend class of Activity    Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent event        View view   getCurrentFocus        boolean ret   super dispatchTouchEvent event        if  view instanceof EditText            View w   getCurrentFocus            int scrcoords     new int 2           w getLocationOnScreen scrcoords           float x   event getRawX     w getLeft   - scrcoords 0           float y   event getRawY     w getTop   - scrcoords 1            if  event getAction      MotionEvent ACTION UP    amp  amp   x  lt  w getLeft      x  gt   w getRight        y  lt  w getTop      y  gt  w getBottom                     InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getWindow   getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0                    return ret      And that s all you need to do

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Try to put stateHidden on as your activity windowSoftInputMode value  http   developer android com reference android R attr html windowSoftInputMode  For example for your Activity   this getWindow   setSoftInputMode      WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE HIDDEN

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hey guys i have simple solution for this problem and this solution can be used for simple registration or login form  my solution is same as i implemented in ios setontouch listener to Main view   activity main xml add ID to your main relative layout android id    id mainlayout   and add this code to your activity     RelativeLayout mainLayout    RelativeLayout findViewById R id mainlayout     mainLayout setOnTouchListener new OnTouchListener                   Override             public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event                       TODO Auto-generated method stub                  Log d  Json Response    Touch outside                      InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager   MainActivity this getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE                       inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow MainActivity this getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0                   return false

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I thought this problem  first  I think that setOnTouchListener is not simple solution  so I believe dispatchTouchEvent is best simple solution   public boolean dispatchKeyEvent KeyEvent event        if  event getAction      KeyEvent ACTION UP            View v   getCurrentFocus            if  v instanceof EditText                InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0                       return super dispatchKeyEvent event       in here  a important is ACTION UP   I assumed EditText only show soft keyboard otherwise not show the keyboard  I have tested on Android5 0 1  G3 cat6 of LG    if you need drag checking  long click       show comments above

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I have refined the method  put the following code in some UI utility class preferably  not necessarily   so that it can be accessed from all your Activity or Fragment classes to serve its purpose   public static void serachAndHideSoftKeybordFromView View view  final Activity act        if   view instanceof EditText             view setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener                 public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event                    hideSoftKeyboard act                   return false                                      if  view instanceof ViewGroup            for  int i   0  i  lt    ViewGroup  view  getChildCount    i                  View nextViewInHierarchy     ViewGroup  view  getChildAt i               serachAndHideSoftKeybordFromView nextViewInHierarchy  act                     public static void hideSoftKeyboard  Activity activity        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  activity getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow activity getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0       Then say for example you need to call it from activity  call it as follows   UIutils serachAndHideSoftKeybordFromView findViewById android R id content   YourActivityName this     Notice      findViewById android R id content    This gives us the root view of the current group you mustn t have set the id on root view    Cheers

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its too simple  just make your recent layout clickable an focusable by this code   android id    id loginParentLayout  android clickable  true  android focusableInTouchMode  true    and then write a method and an OnClickListner for that layout   so that when the uppermost layout is touched any where it will call a method in which you will write code to dismiss keyboard  following is the code for both     you have to write this in OnCreate     yourLayout setOnClickListener new View OnClickListener                     Override                 public void onClick View view                        hideKeyboard view                                       method called from listner -   public void hideKeyboard View view         InputMethodManager imm   InputMethodManager getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE           imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0

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I m aware that this thread is quite old  the correct answer seems valid and there are a lot of working solutions out there  but I think the approach stated bellow might have an additional benefit regarding efficiency and elegance   I need this behavior for all of my activities  so I created a class CustomActivity inheriting from the class Activity and  hooked  the dispatchTouchEvent function  There are mainly two conditions to take care of    If focus is unchanged and someone is tapping outside of the current input field  then dismiss the IME If focus has changed and the next focused element isn t an instance of any kind of an input field  then dismiss the IME   This is my result    Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev        if ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION UP            final View view   getCurrentFocus             if view    null                final boolean consumed   super dispatchTouchEvent ev                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                         return consumed                                              else if viewNew instanceof EditText    viewNew instanceof CustomEditText                    return consumed                             final InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow viewNew getWindowToken    0                viewNew clearFocus                 return consumed                              return super dispatchTouchEvent ev       Side note  Additionally I assign these attributes to the root view making it possible to clear focus on every input field and preventing input fields gaining focus on activity startup  making the content view the  focus catcher      Override protected void onCreate Bundle savedInstanceState        super onCreate savedInstanceState        final View view   findViewById R id content        view setFocusable true       view setFocusableInTouchMode true

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I find the accepted answer a bit complicated   Here s my solution  Add an OnTouchListener to your main layout  ie    findViewById R id mainLayout  setOnTouchListener this    and put the following code in the onTouch method   InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0     This way you don t have to iterate over all views

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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

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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

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Activity    Override  public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev         ScreenUtils hideKeyboard this  findViewById android R id content  getWindowToken          return super dispatchTouchEvent ev        ScreenUtils   public static void hideKeyboard Context context  IBinder windowToken         InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  context getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE        imm hideSoftInputFromWindow windowToken  InputMethodManager HIDE NOT ALWAYS

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The following snippet simply hides the keyboard   public static void hideSoftKeyboard Activity activity        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager             InputMethodManager  activity getSystemService              Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow          activity getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0       You can put this up in a utility class  or if you are defining it within an activity  avoid the activity parameter  or call hideSoftKeyboard this    The trickiest part is when to call it  You can write a method that iterates through every View in your activity  and check if it is an instanceof EditText if it is not register a setOnTouchListener to that component and everything will fall in place  In case you are wondering how to do that  it is in fact quite simple  Here is what you do  you write a recursive method like the following  in fact you can use this to do anything  like setup custom typefaces etc    Here is the method  public void setupUI View view            Set up touch listener for non-text box views to hide keyboard      if    view instanceof EditText             view setOnTouchListener new OnTouchListener                 public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event                    hideSoftKeyboard MyActivity this                   return false                                         If a layout container  iterate over children and seed recursion      if  view instanceof ViewGroup            for  int i   0  i  lt    ViewGroup  view  getChildCount    i                  View innerView     ViewGroup  view  getChildAt i               setupUI innerView                       That is all  just call this method after you setContentView in your activity  In case you are wondering what parameter you would pass  it is the id of the parent container  Assign an id to your parent container like   lt RelativeLayoutPanel android id    id parent  gt       lt  RelativeLayout gt   and call setupUI findViewById R id parent    that is all   If you want to use this effectively  you may create an extended Activity and put this method in  and make all other activities in your application extend this activity and call its setupUI   in the onCreate   method   Hope it helps   If you use more than 1 activity define common id to parent layout like   lt RelativeLayout android id    id main parent  gt       lt  RelativeLayout gt   Then extend a class from Activity and define setupUI findViewById R id main parent   Within its OnResume   and extend this class instead of   Activityin your program    Here is a Kotlin version of the above function    file JvmName  KeyboardUtils    fun Activity hideSoftKeyboard         currentFocus  let           val inputMethodManager   ContextCompat getSystemService this  InputMethodManager  class java            inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow it windowToken  0

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You can achieve this by doing the following steps    Make the parent view content view of your activity  clickable and focusable by adding the following attributes      android clickable  true       android focusableInTouchMode  true    Implement a hideKeyboard   method      public void hideKeyboard View view            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager   InputMethodManager getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE           inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0          Lastly  set the onFocusChangeListener of your edittext       edittext setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener              Override         public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                if   hasFocus                    hideKeyboard v                                      As pointed out in one of the comments below  this might not work if the parent view is a ScrollView  For such case  the clickable and focusableInTouchMode may be added on the view directly under the ScrollView

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setupUI  RelativeLayout  findViewById R id activity logsign up RelativeLayout      Pass the method into your layout file  You must choose your common layout file in XML  Because  keyboard hide works with whole layout   public void setupUI View view               Set up touch listener for non-text box views to hide keyboard          if    view instanceof EditText                 view setOnTouchListener new View OnTouchListener                     public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event                        hideSoftKeyboard Your Context      Pass your context                     return false                                                        If a layout container  iterate over children and seed recursion          if  view instanceof ViewGroup                for  int i   0  i  lt    ViewGroup  view  getChildCount    i                      View innerView     ViewGroup  view  getChildAt i                   setupUI innerView

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I managed to hide the keyboard from inside onItemClick  AutoCompleteTextView  public void onItemClick AdapterView lt   gt  adapterViewIn  View viewIn  int indexSelected  long arg3         InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService viewIn getContext   INPUT METHOD SERVICE        imm hideSoftInputFromWindow viewIn getApplicationWindowToken    0           your code HERE

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I modified the solution of Andre Luis IM I achieved this one   I created a utility method to hide the soft keyboard the same way Andre Luiz IM did   public static void hideSoftKeyboard Activity activity        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager   activity getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow activity getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0       But instead of register an OnTouchListener for every view  that give a poor performance  I registered the OnTouchListener for just the root view  Since the event bubbles until it s consumed  EditText is one of the views that consumes it by default   if it arrives to the root view  it s because it wasn t consumed  so I close the soft keyboard   findViewById android R id content  setOnTouchListener new OnTouchListener          Override     public boolean onTouch View v  MotionEvent event            Utils hideSoftKeyboard activity           return false

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Just Add this code in the class   Overide  public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev        View view   getCurrentFocus        if  view    null  amp  amp   ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION UP    ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION MOVE   amp  amp  view instanceof EditText  amp  amp   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  lt  view getLeft      x  gt  view getRight      y  lt  view getTop      y  gt  view getBottom                  InputMethodManager this getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE   hideSoftInputFromWindow  this getWindow   getDecorView   getApplicationWindowToken     0             return super dispatchTouchEvent ev

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You may easily override the onKey   event in activity and fragments to hide the keyboard    Override public boolean onKey View v  int keyCode  KeyEvent event         if  event getAction      MotionEvent ACTION DOWN            if  keyCode    event KEYCODE ENTER                 intiateLoginProcess                InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getWindow   getCurrentFocus                        getWindowToken    0                return true                      return false

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To solve this problem what you have to do is first use setOnFocusChangeListener of that Edittext  edittext setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener                  Override             public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                    if   hasFocus                        Log d  focus    focus loosed                           Do whatever you want here                   else                       Log d  focus    focused                                                  and then what you need to do is override dispatchTouchEvent in the activity which contains that Edittext see below code   Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent event        if  event getAction      MotionEvent ACTION DOWN            View v   getCurrentFocus            if   v instanceof EditText                Rect outRect   new Rect                v getGlobalVisibleRect outRect               if   outRect contains  int event getRawX     int event getRawY                       Log d  focus    touchevent                    v clearFocus                    InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow v getWindowToken    0                                     return super dispatchTouchEvent event       Now what will happen is when a user click outside then firstly this dispatchTouchEvent will get called which then will clear focus from the editext now your OnFocusChangeListener will get called that focus has been changed now here you can do anything which you wanted to do hope it works

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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

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I have done this way    Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev       View view   getCurrentFocus       if  view    null  amp  amp   ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION UP    ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION MOVE   amp  amp  view instanceof EditText  amp  amp   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  lt  view getLeft      x  gt  view getRight      y  lt  view getTop      y  gt  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

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Adding on to a previous answer by  sumit sonawane   this solution will not hide the keyboard if the user is scrolling   public long pressTime   0   Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent MotionEvent ev        if  ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION DOWN            pressTime   System currentTimeMillis              else if  ev getAction      MotionEvent ACTION UP            long releaseTime   System currentTimeMillis            if  releaseTime-pressTime  lt  200                if  getCurrentFocus      null                    GhostTube print  BottomNavActivity    Touch event with keyboard detected                       InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                   imm hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0                                     return super dispatchTouchEvent ev       Add code to your activity  will also take care of fragments

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This one is the easiest solution for me  and worked out by me    This is the method to hide the keyboard   public void hideKeyboard View view           if   view instanceof EditText                InputMethodManager inputMethodManager  InputMethodManager getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE               inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken   0                     now set onclick attribute of the parent layout of the activity to above method hideKeyboard either from the Design view of your XML file or writing below code in Text view of your XML file   android onClick  hideKeyboard

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I liked the approach of calling dispatchTouchEvent made by htafoya  but    I didn t understand the timer part  don t know why measuring the downtime should be necessary   I don t like to register unregister all EditTexts with every view-change  could be quite a lot of viewchanges and edittexts in complex hierarchies    So  I made this somewhat easier solution    Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent final MotionEvent ev           all touch events close the keyboard before they are processed except EditText instances         if focus is an EditText we need to check  if the touchevent was inside the focus editTexts     final View currentFocus   getCurrentFocus        if    currentFocus instanceof EditText      isTouchInsideView ev  currentFocus               InputMethodManager  getApplicationContext   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE                hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    InputMethodManager HIDE NOT ALWAYS             return super dispatchTouchEvent ev             determine if the given motionevent is inside the given view          param ev               the given view     param currentFocus               the motion event      return if the given motionevent is inside the given view     private boolean isTouchInsideView final MotionEvent ev  final View currentFocus        final int   loc   new int 2       currentFocus getLocationOnScreen loc       return ev getRawX    gt  loc 0   amp  amp  ev getRawY    gt  loc 1   amp  amp  ev getRawX    lt   loc 0    currentFocus getWidth             amp  amp  ev getRawY    lt   loc 1    currentFocus getHeight         There is one disadvantage   Switching from one EditText to another EditText makes the keyboard hide and reshow - in my case it s desired that way  because it shows that you switched between two input components

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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 ---

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My solution hides keyboard on outside click in any activity  with of all edit texts  Without specifying them one by one   First add  to root view of layout xml      android clickable  true      android focusableInTouchMode  true   Next  create one parent Acitvity of all activities you want to hide keyboard  and specify onResume   method     Override     protected void onResume             super onResume              getting Root View that gets focus         View rootView    ViewGroup findViewById android R id content                    getChildAt 0           rootView setOnFocusChangeListener new View OnFocusChangeListener                  Override             public void onFocusChange View v  boolean hasFocus                    if  hasFocus                        hideKeyboard AbstractActivity this                                                       Extend your activity with this General activity  Inheritance power    and that s all  every time any EditText  on any extended Activity  will lose focus  keyboard will be hidden   P S  hideKeyboard method    public static void hideKeyboard Activity context        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  context getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow  context getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0       context getCurrentFocus     doesn t need specifying specific EditText view

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In kotlin  we can do the following  No need to iterate all the views  It will work for fragments also    override fun dispatchTouchEvent ev  MotionEvent    Boolean       currentFocus  let           val imm  InputMethodManager   getSystemService              Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE           as  InputMethodManager          imm hideSoftInputFromWindow it windowToken  0            return super dispatchTouchEvent ev

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