[android] How do you close/hide the Android soft keyboard using Java?

I have an EditText and a Button in my layout.

After writing in the edit field and clicking on the Button, I want to hide the virtual keyboard when touching outside the keyboard. I assume that this is a simple piece of code, but where can I find an example of it?

For kotlin lovers. I have created two extension functions. For hideKeyboard fun, you can pass edittext's instance as a view.

fun Context.hideKeyboard(view: View) {
    (getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager)?.apply {
        hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
    }
}

fun Context.showKeyboard() {
    (getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager)?.apply {
        toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY)
    }
}

I have spent more than two days working through all of the solutions posted in the thread and have found them lacking in one way or another. My exact requirement is to have a button that will with 100% reliability show or hide the on screen keyboard. When the keyboard is in its hidden state is should not re-appear, no matter what input fields the user clicks on. When it is in its visible state the keyboard should not disappear no matter what buttons the user clicks. This needs to work on Android 2.2+ all the way up to the latest devices.

You can see a working implementation of this in my app clean RPN.

After testing many of the suggested answers on a number of different phones (including froyo and gingerbread devices) it became apparent that android apps can reliably:

1. Temporarily hide the keyboard. It will re-appear again when a user focuses a new text field.
2. Show the keyboard when an activity starts and set a flag on the activity indicating that they keyboard should always be visible. This flag can only be set when an activity is initialising.
3. Mark an activity to never show or allow the use of the keyboard. This flag can only be set when an activity is initialising.

For me, temporarily hiding the keyboard is not enough. On some devices it will re-appear as soon as a new text field is focused. As my app uses multiple text fields on one page, focusing a new text field will cause the hidden keyboard to pop back up again.

Unfortunately item 2 and 3 on the list only work reliability when an activity is being started. Once the activity has become visible you cannot permanently hide or show the keyboard. The trick is to actually restart your activity when the user presses the keyboard toggle button. In my app when the user presses on the toggle keyboard button, the following code runs:

private void toggleKeyboard(){

    if(keypadPager.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE){
        Intent i = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);
        Bundle state = new Bundle();
        onSaveInstanceState(state);
        state.putBoolean(SHOW_KEYBOARD, true);
        i.putExtras(state);

        startActivity(i);
    }
    else{
        Intent i = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);
        Bundle state = new Bundle();
        onSaveInstanceState(state);
        state.putBoolean(SHOW_KEYBOARD, false);
        i.putExtras(state);

        startActivity(i);
    }
}

This causes the current activity to have its state saved into a Bundle, and then the activity is started, passing through an boolean which indicates if the keyboard should be shown or hidden.

Inside the onCreate method the following code is run:

if(bundle.getBoolean(SHOW_KEYBOARD)){
    ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).showSoftInput(newEquationText,0);
    getWindow().setSoftInputMode(LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
}
else{
    getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM,
            WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
}

If the soft keyboard should be shown, then the InputMethodManager is told to show the keyboard and the window is instructed to make the soft input always visible. If the soft keyboard should be hidden then the WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM is set.

This approach works reliably on all devices I have tested on - from a 4 year old HTC phone running android 2.2 up to a nexus 7 running 4.2.2. The only disadvantage with this approach is you need to be careful with handling the back button. As my app essentially only has one screen (its a calculator) I can override onBackPressed() and return to the devices home screen.

just add this property in your EditTect view to hide keyboard.

android:focusable="false"

• Kotlin Version via Extension Function

Using kotlin extension functions, it'd be so simple to show and hide the soft keyboard.

ExtensionFunctions.kt

import android.app.Activity
import android.view.View
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager
import android.widget.EditText
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment

fun Activity.hideKeyboard(): Boolean {
    return (getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
        .hideSoftInputFromWindow((currentFocus ?: View(this)).windowToken, 0)
}

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard(): Boolean {
    return (context?.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
        .hideSoftInputFromWindow((activity?.currentFocus ?: View(context)).windowToken, 0)
}

fun EditText.hideKeyboard(): Boolean {
    return (context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
        .hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
}

fun EditText.showKeyboard(): Boolean {
    return (context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
        .showSoftInput(this, 0)
}

• Usage

Now in your Activity or Fragment, hideKeyboard() is clearly accessible as well as calling it from an instance of EditText like:

editText.hideKeyboard()

I got one more solution to hide keyboard:

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 soft Keyboard.

Kotlin

class KeyboardUtils{
    
    companion object{
        fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
            val imm: InputMethodManager = activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
            var view: View? = activity.currentFocus
            if (view == null) {
                view = View(activity)
            }
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
        }
    }
}

Then just call it wherever you need

Fragments

KeyboardUtils.hideKeyboard(requireActivity())

Activities

 KeyboardUtils.hideKeyboard(this)

If you want to hide keyboard using Java code, then use this:

  InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
  imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(fEmail.getWindowToken(), 0);

Or if you want to hide the keyboard always, then use this in your AndroidManifest:

 <activity
 android:name=".activities.MyActivity"
 android:configChanges="keyboardHidden"  />

/** 
 *
 *   Hide I Said!!!
 *
 */
public static boolean hideSoftKeyboard(@NonNull Activity activity) {
    View currentFocus = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    if (currentFocus == null) {
        currentFocus = activity.getWindow().getDecorView();
        if (currentFocus != null) {
            return getSoftInput(activity).hideSoftInputFromWindow(currentFocus.getWindowToken(), 0, null);
        }
    }
    return false;
}

public static boolean hideSoftKeyboard(@NonNull Context context) {
   if(Activity.class.isAssignableFrom(context.getClass())){
       return hideSoftKeyboard((Activity)context);
   }
   return false;
}

public static InputMethodManager getSoftInput(@NonNull Context context) {
    return (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
}

The short answer

In your OnClick listener call the onEditorAction of the EditText with IME_ACTION_DONE

button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        someEditText.onEditorAction(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE)
    }
});

The drill-down

I feel this method is better, simpler and more aligned with Android's design pattern. In the simple example above (and usually in most of the common cases) you'll have an EditText that has/had focus and it also usually was the one to invoke the keyboard in the first place (it is definitely able to invoke it in many common scenarios). In that same way, it should be the one to release the keyboard, usually that can be done by an ImeAction. Just see how an EditText with android:imeOptions="actionDone" behaves, you want to achieve the same behavior by the same means.

Check this related answer

Try this in Kotlin

 private fun hideKeyboard(){
    val imm = activity!!.getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity!!.currentFocus!!.windowToken, 0)
}

Try this in Java

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

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

just make common method for whole application in BaseActivity and BaseFragment

in onCreate() initialize inputMethodManager

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

make this methods to hide & show keyboard

public void hideKeyBoard(View view) {
     if (view != null) {
         inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
      }
 }

public void showKeyboard(View view, boolean isForceToShow) {
      if (isForceToShow)
         inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
      else if (view != null)
           inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, 0);
}

Here are both hide & show methods.

Kotlin

fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
    val v = activity.currentFocus
    val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    assert(v != null)
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v!!.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
}

private fun showKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
    val v = activity.currentFocus
    val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    assert(v != null)
    imm.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}

Java

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    View v = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    assert imm != null && v != null;
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}

private static void showKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    View v = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    assert imm != null && v != null;
    imm.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}

It works for me..

EditText editText=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.edittext1);

put below line of code in onClick()

editText.setFocusable(false);
editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

here hide the keyboard when we click the Button and when we touch the EditText keyboard will be display.

(OR)

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Try This Force fully android soft input keyborad

create Method in Helper class.

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if (imm != null)
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

Works in a fragment with Android 10 (API 29)

val activityView = activity?.window?.decorView?.rootView
activityView?.let {
    val imm = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager
    imm?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(it.windowToken, 0)
}

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)  activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

after that call on onTouchListener:

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

If you want to close the soft keyboard during a unit or functional test, you can do so by clicking the "back button" from your test:

// Close the soft keyboard from a Test
getInstrumentation().sendKeyDownUpSync(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK);

I put "back button" in quotes, since the above doesn't trigger the onBackPressed() for the Activity in question. It just closes the keyboard.

Make sure to pause for a little while before moving on, since it takes a little while to close the back button, so subsequent clicks to Views, etc., won't be registered until after a short pause (1 second is long enough ime).

Kotlin version

val imm: InputMethodManager = getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
//Hide:
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
//Show
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);

Add to your activity android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" in Manifest file. Example:

<activity
            android:name=".ui.activity.MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/mainactivity"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"/>

Depite all those answers, just to be simple enough, I have written a common method to do this :

/**
 * hide soft keyboard in a activity
 * @param activity
 */
public static void hideKeyboard (Activity activity){
    activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
    if (activity.getCurrentFocus() != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

Just Add following line in AndroidManifest in specific activity.

<activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"/>

Using AndroidX, we are going to get an amazing way to show/ hide keyboards. Read the Release Notes - 1.5.0-alpha02. Now how to hide/ show Keyboard

val controller = view.windowInsetsController

// Show the keyboard
controller.show(Type.ime())
// Hide the keyboard
controller.hide(Type.ime())

Linking my own answer How to check visibility of software keyboard in Android? and an Amazing blog which includes more of this change (even more than it).

Easy way for you is to set the below attribute in your EditText View.

android:imeOptions="actionDone" 

you can create Extension function for any View

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

Example use with Activity

window.decorView.hideKeyboard();

Example use with View

etUsername.hideKeyboard();

Happy Coding...

sometimes all you want is the enter button to fold the keyboard give the EditText box you have the attribute

 android:imeOptions="actionDone" 

this will change the Enter button to a Done button that will close the keyboard.

from so searching, here I found an answer that works for me

// Show soft-keyboard:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

// Hide soft-keyboard:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

private void hideSoftKeyboard() {
    View view = getView();
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getActivity()
                .getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

if you set in your .xml android:focused="true", than he would not work because it is a set like it is not changeable.

so the solution: android:focusedByDefault="true"

than he will set it once and can be hide/show the keyboard

you can hide keyboard in Kotlin as well using this code snippet.

 fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity?) {
    val inputManager: InputMethodManager? = 
    activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? 
    InputMethodManager
    // check if no view has focus:
    val v = activity?.currentFocus ?: return
    inputManager?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.windowToken, 0)
 }

In some cases this methods can works except of all others. This saves my day :)

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    if (activity != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (activity.getCurrentFocus() != null && inputManager != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromInputMethod(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }
}

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(View view) {
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) view.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (inputManager != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }
}

Just call the below method it will hide your keyboard if its showing.

public void hideKeyboard() {
    try {
        InputMethodManager inputmanager = (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (inputmanager != null) {
            inputmanager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    } catch (Exception var2) {
    }

}

Sometime you can have an activity that contains a listview with rows that contains editText so you have to setup in manifest SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN then they keyboard shows up which is annoying.

The following workarround works if you place it at the end of onCreate

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);
            }
        },100);

I created a layout partially from xml and partially from a custom layout engine, which is all handled in-code. The only thing that worked for me was to keep track of whether or not the keyboard was open, and use the keyboard toggle method as follows:

public class MyActivity extends Activity
{
    /** This maintains true if the keyboard is open. Otherwise, it is false. */
    private boolean isKeyboardOpen = false;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        LayoutInflater inflater;
        inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        View contentView = inflater.inflate(context.getResources().getIdentifier("main", "layout", getPackageName()), null);

        setContentView(contentView);
        contentView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() 
        {
            public void onGlobalLayout() 
            {
                Rect r = new Rect();
                contentView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);
                int heightDiff = contentView.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
                if (heightDiff > 100) 
                    isKeyboardVisible = true;
                else
                    isKeyboardVisible = false;
             });
         }
    }

    public void closeKeyboardIfOpen()
    {
        InputMethodManager imm;
        imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (isKeyboardVisible)
            imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
    }   
}

public void setKeyboardVisibility(boolean show) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if(show){
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
    }else{
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),0);
    }
}

For my case, I was using the a SearchView in the actionbar. After a user performs a search, the keyboard would pop open again.

Using the InputMethodManager did not close the keyboard. I had to clearFocus and set the focusable of the search view to false:

mSearchView.clearFocus();
mSearchView.setFocusable(false);

An easy workaround ist to just editText.setEnabled(false);editText.setEnabled(true); in your Button onClick() method.

Just use this optimized code in your activity:

if (this.getCurrentFocus() != null) {
    InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}

Tried all here in desperation, combining all methods, and of course the keyboard will not close in Android 4.0.3 (it did work in Honeicomb AFAIR).

Then suddenly I found an apparently winning combination:

textField.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT |InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_NORMAL);

combined with your usual recipes

blahblaj.hideSoftInputFromWindow ...

hope this stops somebody from committing suicide .. I was close to it. Of course, I have no idea why it works.

First, you should add from the XML file add android:imeOptions field and change its value to actionUnspecified|actionGo as below

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
                    android:id="@+id/edit_text_id"
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="@dimen/edit_text_height"
                    android:imeOptions="actionUnspecified|actionGo"
                    />

Then In the java class add a setOnEditorActionListener and add InputMethodManager as below

enterOrderNumber.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_GO) {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

I have almost tried all of these answers, I had some random issues especially with the samsung galaxy s5.

What I end up with is forcing the show and hide, and it works perfectly:

/**
 * Force show softKeyboard.
 */
public static void forceShow(@NonNull Context context) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
}

/**
 * Force hide softKeyboard.
 */
public static void forceHide(@NonNull Activity activity, @NonNull EditText editText) {
    if (activity.getCurrentFocus() == null || !(activity.getCurrentFocus() instanceof EditText)) {
        editText.requestFocus();
    }
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
    activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
}

To show keyboard on application start:

        getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN | WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
        view.requestFocus();
        new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);
            }
        }, 1000);

use Text watcher instead of EditText.and after you finished entering the input 

you can use

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);

Please try this below code in onCreate()

EditText edtView = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextConvertValue);
edtView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Thanks to this SO answer, I derived the following which, in my case, works nicely when scrolling through the the fragments of a ViewPager...

private void hideKeyboard() {   
    // Check if no view has focus:
    View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

private void showKeyboard() {   
    // Check if no view has focus:
    View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputManager.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
    }
}

By Adding the Generic method to your Utility or Helper class. By just calling itself you can hide and show keyboard

fun AppCompatActivity.hideKeyboard() {
            val view = this.currentFocus
            if (view != null) {
                val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
            }
           window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)

        }


 fun AppCompatActivity.showKeyboard() {
            val view = this.currentFocus
            if (view != null) {
                val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
            }                     window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)

        }

I have the case, where my EditText can be located also in an AlertDialog, so the keyboard should be closed on dismiss. The following code seems to be working anywhere:

public static void hideKeyboard( Activity activity ) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)activity.getSystemService( Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE );
    View f = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    if( null != f && null != f.getWindowToken() && EditText.class.isAssignableFrom( f.getClass() ) )
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow( f.getWindowToken(), 0 );
    else 
        activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode( WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN );
}

Meier's solution works for me too. In my case, the top level of my App is a tab host and I want to hide the keyword when switching tabs - I get the window token from the tab host View.

tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {
    public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(tabHost.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

After reading all the answers above and in another post, I still didn't succeed in getting the keyboard to open automatically.

In my project I created a dialog (AlertDialog) dynamically (by programming it without or with minimum of needed XML).

So I was doing something like:

    dialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity);

    if(dialogBuilder==null)
        return false; //error

    inflater      = activity.getLayoutInflater();
    dialogView    = inflater.inflate(layout, null);
    ...

And after finishing setting-up all the views (TextView, ImageView, EditText,etc..) I did:

        alertDialog = dialogBuilder.create();

        alertDialog.show();

After playing around with all the answers I found out that most of them work IF you know WHERE to put the request... And that was the key to all.

So, the trick is to put it BEFORE the creation of the dialog: alertDialog.show() in my case, this worked like charm:

        alertDialog = dialogBuilder.create();           
        alertDialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);

        //And only when everything is finished - let's bring up the window - 
        alertDialog.show();

        //Viola... keyboard is waiting for you open and ready...
        //Just don't forget to request focus for the needed view (i.e. EditText..)

I'm quite sure this principle is the same with all windows, so pay attention to the location of your "showKeyboard" code - it should be before the window is launched.

A small request from the Android SDK dev team:

I think that all this is unnecessary as you can see thousands of programmers from all over the world are dealing with this ridiculous and trivial problem, while its solution should be clean and simple: IMHO if I get requestFocus() to an input-oriented view (such as EditText), the keyboard should open automatically, unless the user asks not-to, so, I think the requestFocus() method is the key here and should accept boolean showSoftKeyboard with default value of true: View.requestFocus(boolean showSoftKeyboard);

Hope this will help others like me.

Below code will help you to make generic function that can be call from anywhere.

import android.app.Activity
import android.content.Context
import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar
import android.view.View
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager

public class KeyboardHider {
    companion object {

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

    }

}

Call Above method from anywhere using one single line of code.

CustomSnackbar.hideKeyboard(view, this@ActivityName)

view could be anything for example root layout of an activity.

Works like magic touch every time

private void closeKeyboard() {
    InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getActivity().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

}

private void openKeyboard() {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if(imm != null){
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);
    }
}

Simple and Easy to use method, just call hideKeyboardFrom(YourActivity.this); to hide keyboard

/**
 * This method is used to hide keyboard
 * @param activity
 */
public static void hideKeyboardFrom(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

simple method guys: try this...

private void closeKeyboard(boolean b) {

        View view = this.getCurrentFocus();

        if(b) {
            if (view != null) {
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
        else {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.showSoftInput(view, 0);
        }
    }

I'm using following Kotlin Activity extensions:

/**
 * Hides soft keyboard if is open.
 */
fun Activity.hideKeyboard() {
    currentFocus?.windowToken?.let {
        (getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager?)
                ?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(it, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
    }
}

/**
 * Shows soft keyboard and request focus to given view.
 */
fun Activity.showKeyboard(view: View) {
    view.requestFocus()
    currentFocus?.windowToken?.let {
        (getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager?)
                ?.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
    }
}

this is Working..

Just Pass your current activity instance in the function

 public void isKeyBoardShow(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if (imm.isActive()) {
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0); // hide
    } else {
        imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY); // show
    }
}

Saurabh Pareek has the best answer so far.

Might as well use the correct flags, though.

/* hide keyboard */
((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
    .toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);

/* show keyboard */
((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
    .toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

Example of real use

/* click button */
public void onClick(View view) {      
  /* hide keyboard */
  ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
      .toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);

  /* start loader to check parameters ... */
}

/* loader finished */
public void onLoadFinished(Loader<Object> loader, Object data) {
    /* parameters not valid ... */

    /* show keyboard */
    ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
        .toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

    /* parameters valid ... */
}

For the kotlin users out there here is a kotlin extension method that has worked for my use cases:

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

put it in a file called ViewExtensions (or what have you) and call it on your views just like a normal method.

simply code : use this code in onCreate()

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
    WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN
);

This worked for me for all the bizarre keyboard behavior

private boolean isKeyboardVisible() {
    Rect r = new Rect();
    //r will be populated with the coordinates of your view that area still visible.
    mRootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

    int heightDiff = mRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
    return heightDiff > 100; // if more than 100 pixels, its probably a keyboard...
}

protected void showKeyboard() {
    if (isKeyboardVisible())
        return;
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if (getCurrentFocus() == null) {
        inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
    } else {
        View view = getCurrentFocus();
        inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
    }
}

protected void hideKeyboard() {
    if (!isKeyboardVisible())
        return;
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    View view = getCurrentFocus();
    if (view == null) {
        if (inputMethodManager.isAcceptingText())
            inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS, 0);
    } else {
        if (view instanceof EditText)
            ((EditText) view).setText(((EditText) view).getText().toString()); // reset edit text bug on some keyboards bug
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromInputMethod(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

This worked for me.

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity act, EditText et){
    Context c = act.getBaseContext();
    View v = et.findFocus();
    if(v == null)
        return;
    InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) c.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}

Here are the best solutions

Solution 1) Set the inputType to “text”

<EditText
android:id="@+id/my_edit_text"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Tap here to type"
android:inputType="text" />

This can also be done programmatically via. the method setInputType() (inherited from TextView).

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.my_edit_text);
editText.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | 
InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_NORMAL);

Solution 2) Use the InputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow()

InputMethodManager imm = 
(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);

or

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) 
getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 
InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

For Open Keyboard :

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(edtView, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

For Close/Hide Keyboard :

 InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
 imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(edtView.getWindowToken(), 0);

This method will always always work at any cost. Just Use it wherever you want to hide the keyboard

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Context mContext,EditText username){
        if(((Activity) mContext).getCurrentFocus()!=null && ((Activity) mContext).getCurrentFocus() instanceof EditText){
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)mContext.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(username.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }

Use it like this :

Whatever is the version of Android. This method will surely work

there are two ways to do so...

method 1:in manifest file

define the line **android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden"** of code in your manifest.xml file as below...

<activity
            android:name="packagename.youactivityname"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden" />

Method 2 : in Activity or Java class

 if(getCurrentFocus()!=null) {
            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)`enter code here`;
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }

it will work....@ASK

 //In Activity
        View v = this.getCurrentFocus();
        if (v != null) {
            InputMethodManager im = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            im.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }


//In Fragment
        View v = getActivity().getCurrentFocus();
        if (v != null) {
            InputMethodManager im = (InputMethodManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            im.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
```

You can force Android to hide the virtual keyboard using the InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow, passing in the token of the window containing your focused view.

// Check if no view has focus:
View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

This will force the keyboard to be hidden in all situations. In some cases, you will want to pass in InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY as the second parameter to ensure you only hide the keyboard when the user didn't explicitly force it to appear (by holding down the menu).

Note: If you want to do this in Kotlin, use: context?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager

Kotlin Syntax

// Only runs if there is a view that is currently focused
this.currentFocus?.let { view ->
    val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager
    imm?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
}

Actually, always Android authority is giving new updates but they are not handling their old drawbacks which all Android developers face in their development this should be handled by Android authority by default, on changing focus from EditText should hide/show soft input keyboard option. But sorry about that, they are not managing. Ok, leave it.

Below are the solutions to show/hide/toggle a keyboard option in Activity or Fragment.

Show keyboard for the view:

/**
 * open soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param context
 * @param view
 */
public static void showKeyBoard(Context context, View view) {
    try {
        InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        keyboard.showSoftInput(view, 0);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Show keyboard with Activity context:

/**
 * open soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param mActivity context
 */
public static void showKeyBoard(Activity mActivity) {
    try {
        View view = mActivity.getCurrentFocus();
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) mActivity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            keyboard.showSoftInputFromInputMethod(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Show keyboard with Fragment context:

/**
 * open soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param mFragment context
 */
public static void showKeyBoard(Fragment mFragment) {
    try {
        if (mFragment == null || mFragment.getActivity() == null) {
            return;
        }
        View view = mFragment.getActivity().getCurrentFocus();
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) mFragment.getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            keyboard.showSoftInputFromInputMethod(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Hide keyboard for the view:

/**
 * close soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param context
 * @param view
 */
public static void hideKeyBoard(Context context, View view) {
    try {
        InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        keyboard.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Hide keyboard with Activity context:

/**
 * close opened soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param mActivity context
 */
public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity mActivity) {
    try {
        View view = mActivity.getCurrentFocus();
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) mActivity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Hide keyboard with Fragment context:

/**
 * close opened soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param mFragment context
 */
public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Fragment mFragment) {
    try {
        if (mFragment == null || mFragment.getActivity() == null) {
            return;
        }
        View view = mFragment.getActivity().getCurrentFocus();
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) mFragment.getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Toggle Keyboard:

/**
 * toggle soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param context
 */
public static void toggleSoftKeyboard(Context context) {
    try {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Try this

• Simple you can call in your Activity

 public static void hideKeyboardwithoutPopulate(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =
            (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(
                    Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(
            activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

• In your MainActivitiy call this

 hideKeyboardwithoutPopulate(MainActivity.this);

You could also look into using setImeOption on the EditText.

I just had a very simular situation where my layout contained an EditText and a search button. When I discovered I could just set the ime option to "actionSearch" on my editText, I realized I didn't even need a search button anymore. The soft keyboard (in this mode) has a search icon, which can be used to kick off the search (and the keyboard closes itself as you would expect).

Alternatively to this all around solution, if you wanted to close the soft keyboard from anywhere without having a reference to the (EditText) field that was used to open the keyboard, but still wanted to do it if the field was focused, you could use this (from an Activity):

if (getCurrentFocus() != null) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

If you use Kotlin for developing your application, it's really easy to do.

Add this extensions functions:

For Activity:

fun Activity.hideKeyboard() {
    val inputManager = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    val view = currentFocus
    if (view != null) {
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
    }
}

For Fragment:

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard() {
    activity?.let {
        val inputManager = it.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        val view = it.currentFocus
        if (view != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
        }
    }
}

Now you can simple call in your Fragment or Activity:

 hideKeyboard()

Very simple way

I do this in all my projects, and work like a dream. In your declarations layout.xml just add this single line:

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Full code example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

    <EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <ListView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    </ListView>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

When you want to hide keyboard manually on the action of button click:

/**
 * Hides the already popped up keyboard from the screen.
 *
 */
public void hideKeyboard() {
    try {
        // use application level context to avoid unnecessary leaks.
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        assert inputManager != null;
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

When you want to hide keyboard where ever you click on screen except edittext Override this method in your activity:

@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())
            ((InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow((this.getWindow().getDecorView().getApplicationWindowToken()), 0);
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

There are a lot of answers, If after all nothing works then, Here is a Tip :), you can make an EditText and,

edittext.setAlpha(0f);

this edittext will not be seen because of the alpha method, Now use the Above answers on how to show/hide soft keyboard with EditText.

I have written small extension for Kotlin if anyone interested, didn't test it much tho:

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard(context: Context = App.instance) {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    windowToken?.let {
        val imm = context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
    }
}

App.instance is static "this" Application object stored in Application

Update: In some cases windowToken is null. I have added additional way of closing keyboard using reflection to detect if keyboard is closed

/**
 * If no window token is found, keyboard is checked using reflection to know if keyboard visibility toggle is needed
 *
 * @param useReflection - whether to use reflection in case of no window token or not
 */
fun Fragment.hideKeyboard(context: Context = MainApp.instance, useReflection: Boolean = true) {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    val imm = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    windowToken?.let {
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
    } ?: run {
        if (useReflection) {
            try {
                if (getKeyboardHeight(imm) > 0) {
                    imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
                }
            } catch (exception: Exception) {
                Timber.e(exception)
            }
        }
    }
}

fun getKeyboardHeight(imm: InputMethodManager): Int = InputMethodManager::class.java.getMethod("getInputMethodWindowVisibleHeight").invoke(imm) as Int

Some kotlin code:

Hide keyboard from Activity:

(currentFocus ?: View(this))
            .apply { (getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
                        .hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0) }

public void hideKeyboard() 
{
    if(getCurrentFocus()!=null) 
    {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}


public void showKeyboard(View mView) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    mView.requestFocus();
    inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(mView, 0);
}

This code snippet can helped:

    final InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if (inputMethodManager != null && inputMethodManager.isActive()) {
        if (getCurrentFocus() != null) {
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }

It can be called in different methods according to need (ex. onPause, onResume, onRestart ...)

If all the other answers here don't work for you as you would like them to, there's another way of manually controlling the keyboard.

Create a function with that will manage some of the EditText's properties:

public void setEditTextFocus(boolean isFocused) {
    searchEditText.setCursorVisible(isFocused);
    searchEditText.setFocusable(isFocused);
    searchEditText.setFocusableInTouchMode(isFocused);

    if (isFocused) {
        searchEditText.requestFocus();
    }
}

Then, make sure that onFocus of the EditText you open/close the keyboard:

searchEditText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (v == searchEditText) {
            if (hasFocus) {
                // Open keyboard
                ((InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).showSoftInput(searchEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
            } else {
                // Close keyboard
                ((InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow(searchEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
    }
});

Now, whenever you want to open the keyboard manually call:

setEditTextFocus(true);

And for closing call:

setEditTextFocus(false);

This was work for me. It is in Kotlin for hiding the keyboard.

private fun hideKeyboard() {
        val inputManager = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        val focusedView = activity?.currentFocus
        if (focusedView != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(focusedView.windowToken,
                    InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
        }
    }

Wiki answer in Kotlin :

1 - Create a top-level function inside a file (for example a file that contains all your top-level functions) :

fun Activity.hideKeyboard(){
    val imm = this.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    var view = currentFocus
    if (view == null) { view = View(this) }
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
}

2 - Then call it in any activity you needed it :

this.hideKeyboard()

Try This one

public void disableSoftKeyboard(final EditText v) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {
        v.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
        v.setTextIsSelectable(true);
    } else {
        v.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
        v.setFocusable(true);
    }
}

An alternative using SearchView would be to use this code:

searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();    
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new OnQueryTextListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
        getSystemService(getApplicationContext().INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(searchView.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

This is a SearchView search box in the ActionBar that when the text from the query is submitted (the user presses either Enter key or a search button/icon), then the InputMethodManager code gets activated and makes your soft keyboard go down. This code was put in my onCreateOptionsMenu(). searchItem is from MenuItem which is part of the default code for the onCreateOptionsmenu(). Thanks to @mckoss for a good chunk of this code!

This should work:

public class KeyBoard {

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

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

    public static void toggle(Activity activity){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (imm.isActive()){
            hide(activity); 
        } else {
            show(activity); 
        }
    }
}

KeyBoard.toggle(activity);

 fun hideKeyboard(appCompatActivity: AppCompatActivity) {
        val view = appCompatActivity.currentFocus
        val imm = appCompatActivity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
    }

KOTLIN SOLUTION IN A FRAGMENT:

fun hideSoftKeyboard() {
        val view = activity?.currentFocus
        view?.let { v ->
            val imm =
                activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager // or context
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.windowToken, 0)
        }
}

Check your manifest doesn't have this parameter associated with your activity:

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"

I have tried all of solutions very much but no solution work for me, so I found my solution: You should have boolean variables like:

public static isKeyboardShowing = false;
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getActivity()
            .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

And in a touch screen event you call:

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if(keyboardShowing==true){
        inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.RESULT_UNCHANGED_HIDDEN, 0);
        keyboardShowing = false;
    }
    return super.onTouchEvent(event);
}

And in EditText is in anywhere:

yourEditText.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            yourClass.keyboardShowing = true;

        }
    });

This one works for me, you just need to pass the element inside it.

InputMethodManager imm=(InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(AutocompleteviewDoctorState.getWindowToken(), 0);

there is new API in Android 11 called WindowInsetsController, Apps can get access to a controller from any view, by which we can use hide() and show() method

val controller = view.windowInsetsController

// Show the keyboard (IME)
controller.show(Type.ime())

// Hide the keyboard
controller.hide(Type.ime())

see https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/WindowInsetsController

I'm using a custom keyboard to input an Hex number so I can't have the IMM keyboard show up...

In v3.2.4_r1 setSoftInputShownOnFocus(boolean show) was added to control weather or not to display the keyboard when a TextView gets focus, but its still hidden so reflection must be used:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR2) {
    try {
        Method method = TextView.class.getMethod("setSoftInputShownOnFocus", boolean.class);
        method.invoke(mEditText, false);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // Fallback to the second method
    }
}

For older versions, I got very good results (but far from perfect) with a OnGlobalLayoutListener, added with the aid of a ViewTreeObserver from my root view and then checking if the keyboard is shown like this:

@Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
    Configuration config = getResources().getConfiguration();

    // Dont allow the default keyboard to show up
    if (config.keyboardHidden != Configuration.KEYBOARDHIDDEN_YES) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mRootView.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

This last solution may show the keyboard for a split second and messes with the selection handles.

When in the keyboard enters full screen, onGlobalLayout isn't called. To avoid that, use TextView#setImeOptions(int) or in the TextView XML declaration:

android:imeOptions="actionNone|actionUnspecified|flagNoFullscreen|flagNoExtractUi"

Update: Just found what dialogs use to never show the keyboard and works in all versions:

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM,
        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity
            .getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus()
            .getWindowToken(), 0);
}

I use Kotlin extensions for showing and hiding the Keyboard.

fun View.showKeyboard() {
  this.requestFocus()
  val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
  inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(this, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}

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

Also useful for hiding the soft-keyboard is:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
    WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN
);

This can be used to suppress the soft-keyboard until the user actually touches the editText View.

When moving from fragment to fragment

fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity?): Boolean {
    val inputManager = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager?
    if (inputManager != null) {
        val currentFocus = activity?.currentFocus
        if (currentFocus != null) {
            val windowToken = currentFocus.windowToken
            if (windowToken != null) {
                return inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
            }
        }
    }
    return false
}

fun showKeyboard(editText: EditText) {
    val imm = editText.context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.windowToken, 0)
    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0)
    editText.requestFocus()
}

you can simply add this code where you want to hide the soft keyboard"

                        // Check if no view has focus:
                            View view = getCurrentFocus();
                            if (view != null) {
                                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
                            }

In AndroidManifest.xml under <activity..> set android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"

In Android to hide the Vkeyboard by InputMethodManage you can cal hideSoftInputFromWindow by passing in the token of the window containing your focused view.

View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
InputMethodManager im = 
(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
im.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

By Calling editText.clearFocus() and then InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY even works

For Xamarin.Android:

public void HideKeyboard()
{
    var imm = activity.GetSystemService(Context.InputMethodService).JavaCast<InputMethodManager>();
    var view = activity.CurrentFocus ?? new View(activity);
    imm.HideSoftInputFromWindow(view.WindowToken, HideSoftInputFlags.None);
}

surround it with try catch, so that is keyboard is already closed, app would not crash :

try{

View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
}catch (Exception e)
{
  e.printStackTrace();
}

You only need to write one line inside your manifest activity tag

 android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden|adjustPan"

and it will work.

protected void hideSoftKeyboard(EditText input) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(input.getWindowToken(), 0);    
}

This works for me :

 @Override
 public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
View v = getCurrentFocus();
boolean ret = super.dispatchTouchEvent(event);

if (v 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];

    Log.d("Activity",
            "Touch event " + event.getRawX() + "," + event.getRawY()
                    + " " + x + "," + y + " rect " + w.getLeft() + ","
                    + w.getTop() + "," + w.getRight() + ","
                    + w.getBottom() + " coords " + scrcoords[0] + ","
                    + scrcoords[1]);
    if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP
            && (x < w.getLeft() || x >= w.getRight() || y < w.getTop() || y > w
                    .getBottom())) {

        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getCurrentFocus()
                .getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}
return ret;
}

Here's how you do it in Mono for Android (AKA MonoDroid)

InputMethodManager imm = GetSystemService (Context.InputMethodService) as InputMethodManager;
if (imm != null)
    imm.HideSoftInputFromWindow (searchbox.WindowToken , 0);

Update: I don't know why this solution is not work any more ( I just tested on Android 23). Please use the solution of Saurabh Pareek instead. Here it is:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
//Hide:
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
//Show
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);

Old answer:

//Show soft-keyboard:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
//hide keyboard :
 getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Hi This is simple if you are working with Kotlin i belive you can easily convert the code to Java too first in your activity use this function when your activity is load for example in the onCreate() call it.

fun hideKeybord (){
val inputManager = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
if (inputManager.isAcceptingText){
    inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(currentFocus.windowToken, 0)
}

}

as i mentiond call this Function in your onCreate() methode then add this android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" line to your activity in manafest.xml file Like this...

<activity
    android:name=".Activity.MainActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden">

Above answers work for different scenario's but If you want to hide the keyboard inside a view and struggling to get the right context try this:

setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        hideSoftKeyBoardOnTabClicked(v);
    }
}

private void hideSoftKeyBoardOnTabClicked(View v) {
    if (v != null && context != null) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getApplicationWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

and to get the context fetch it from constructor:)

public View/RelativeLayout/so and so (Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    this.context = context;
    init();
}

If your application is targeting API Level 21 or more than there is a default method to use:

editTextObj.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false);

Make sure you have set below code in EditText XML tag.

<EditText  
    ....
    android:enabled="true"
    android:focusable="true" />

In Kotlin

fun hideKeyboard(activity: BaseActivity) {
        val view = activity.currentFocus?: View(activity)
        val imm = activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
    }

public static void closeInput(final View caller) {  
    caller.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) caller.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(caller.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
        }
    }, 100);
}

This method generally works, but there is one condition: you can't have android:windowSoftInputMode="any_of_these" set

use this

this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(
            WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Call this method to hide the soft keyboard

public void hideKeyBoard() {
    View view1 = this.getCurrentFocus();
    if(view!= null){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view1.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}