How do I make an Android EditView Done button and hide the keyboard when clicked

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When the user clicks on the EditView  Android opens the keyboard so that user can write in the EditView   The problem is  when the user is done writing  there is no way to hide the keyboard  The user has to press the back button to hide the keyboard   Is there a way to display a Done button on the keyboard that will hide the keyboard

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use this in your view   lt EditText                        android imeOptions  actionDone       android id    id edtName        gt

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Kotlin Solution The direct way to handle the hide keyboard   done action in Kotlin is     Set action edittext setOnEditorActionListener      actionId    - gt      if  actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE               Hide Keyboard         val inputMethodManager   context getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager         inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow windowToken  0          true           false    Kotlin Extension Use this to call edittext onDone    action    in your main code  Keeps it more readable and maintainable edittext onDone   edittext hideKeyboard      fun View hideKeyboard         val inputMethodManager   context getSystemService INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager     inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow windowToken  0     fun EditText onDone callback     - gt  Unit           These lines optional if you don t want to set in Xml     imeOptions   EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE     maxLines   1     setOnEditorActionListener      actionId    - gt          if  actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE                callback invoke               true                   false          Additional Keyboard Extensions If you d like more ways to simplify working with the keyboard  show  close  focus   Read this post  Don t forget to add these options to your edittext Xml  if not in code   lt EditText         android imeOptions  quot actionDone quot      android inputType  quot text quot   gt    Need inputType  quot textMultiLine quot  support  Read this post and don t add imeOptions or inputType in Xml

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If you don t want any button at all  e g  you are developing a GUI for blind people where tap cannot be positional and you rely on single double long taps    text setItemOptions EditorInfo IME ACTION NONE    Or in Kotlin    text imeOptions   EditorInfo IME ACTION NONE

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Include both imeOptions and singleLine    lt EditText     android id    id edittext done     android layout width  fill parent     android layout height  wrap content     android imeOptions  actionDone     android singleLine  true       gt

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If you are using   android imeOptions  actionDone     then you must use  android inputType  text    then only you can see Action Done button in Keyboard

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android imeActionLabel  Done   android singleLine  true    In the XML file works just fine  But this will also cause the editText to keep typing in a single line which you may not want  So adding following to your code will make sure that you won t end up typing everything on a single line    mainText setHorizontallyScrolling false   mainText setMaxLines  Maximum integer value that you want to provide

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Use TextView setImeOptions and pass it actionDone  like textView setImeOptions EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE

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For getting the done Button  editText setImeOptions EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE    and   android inputType  text  in the xml  For handling on done clicked from keyboard      editText setOnEditorActionListener new TextView OnEditorActionListener              Override         public boolean onEditorAction TextView v  int actionId  KeyEvent event               if actionId    EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE                      Your action on done                 return true                            return false

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ActionDone is use when click in next button in the keyboard that time  keyboard is hide Use in Edit Text or AppcompatEdit       XML  1 1 If you use AppCompatEdittext       lt android support v7 widget AppCompatEditText     android id    id edittext      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android imeOptions  actionDone   gt    1 2 If you use Edittext       lt EditText     android id    id edittext      android layout width  match parent      android layout height  wrap content      android imeOptions  actionDone   gt    JAVA  EditText edittext   EditText  findViewById R id edittext   edittext setImeOptions EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE

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I have to point that out as a lot of people can struggle into that without knowing the problem   If you want the kb to hide when clicking Done  and you set android imeOptions  actionDone   amp  android maxLines  1  without setting your EditText inputType it will NOT work as the default inputType for the EditText is not  text  as a lot of people think   so  setting only inputType will give you the results you desire whatever what you are setting it to like  text    number      etc

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First you need to set the android imeOptions attribute equal to actionDone for your target EditText as seen below  That will change your    RETURN    button in your EditText   s soft keyboard to a    DONE    button   lt EditText      android id  quot   id edittext done quot      android layout width  quot fill parent quot      android layout height  quot wrap content quot      android hint  quot Enter some text quot      android imeOptions  quot actionDone quot      android singleLine  quot true quot        gt

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If the property does not change for the widget it may be better to use like  android imeOptions  actionDone  in the layout xml file

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Actually you can set custom text to that little blue button  In the xml file just use  android imeActionLabel  whatever    on your EditText   Or in the java file use  etEditText setImeActionLabel  whatever   EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE     I arbitrarily choose IME ACTION DONE as an example of what should go in the second parameter for this function  A full list of these actions can be found here   It should be noted that this will not cause text to appear on all keyboards on all devices  Some keyboards do not support text on that button  e g  swiftkey   And some devices don t support it either  A good rule is  if you see text already on the button  this will change it to whatever you d want

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For the code   editText setImeOptions EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE

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Use    android imeActionLabel  Done  android singleLine  true

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Use These two lines to your EditText  android imeActionLabel  Done  android singleLine  true    or you can achieve it Programmatically by this line   editText setImeOptions EditorInfo IME ACTION DONE

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Use this    android singleLine  true

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