How do you close hide the Android soft keyboard using Java

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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

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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

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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

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simply code   use this code in onCreate    getWindow   setSoftInputMode      WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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public static void hideSoftKeyboard Activity activity        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager activity getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow activity getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0

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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  gt   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

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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

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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

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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

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Just Add following line in AndroidManifest in specific activity     lt activity         android name   MainActivity          android screenOrientation  portrait          android windowSoftInputMode  adjustPan   gt

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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              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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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  gt  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

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You only need to write one line inside your manifest activity tag   android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden adjustPan    and it will work

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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  amp  amp  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

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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

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Easy way for you is to set the below attribute in your EditText View   android imeOptions  actionDone

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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

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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

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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  amp  amp  null    f getWindowToken    amp  amp  EditText class isAssignableFrom  f getClass               imm hideSoftInputFromWindow  f getWindowToken    0        else          activity getWindow   setSoftInputMode  WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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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 lt Object gt  loader  Object data           parameters not valid                show keyboard          InputMethodManager  getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE            toggleSoftInput 0  InputMethodManager HIDE IMPLICIT ONLY           parameters valid

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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

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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    lt  xml version  1 0  encoding  utf-8   gt   lt 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  gt        lt EditText         android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content    gt        lt ListView         android layout width  match parent          android layout height  wrap content  gt        lt  ListView gt    lt  android support constraint ConstraintLayout gt

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just add this property in your EditTect view to hide keyboard   android focusable  false

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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

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Add to your activity    android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden  in Manifest file  Example    lt activity             android name   ui activity MainActivity              android label   string mainactivity              android windowSoftInputMode  stateHidden   gt

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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

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Here are both hide  amp  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  amp  amp  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  amp  amp  v    null      imm showSoftInput v  InputMethodManager SHOW IMPLICIT

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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      lt activity             android name  packagename youactivityname              android screenOrientation  portrait              android windowSoftInputMode  adjustPan stateAlwaysHidden    gt   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

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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

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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

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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

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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       lt activity     android name   Activity MainActivity      android label   string app name      android theme   style AppTheme NoActionBar      android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden  gt

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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

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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

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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

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Some kotlin code    Hide keyboard from Activity    currentFocus    View this                apply    getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager                           hideSoftInputFromWindow windowToken  0

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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   gt  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

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An easy workaround ist to just editText setEnabled false  editText setEnabled true   in your Button onClick   method

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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if you set in your  xml android focused  quot true quot   than he would not work because it is a set like it is not changeable  so the solution  android focusedByDefault  quot true quot  than he will set it once and can be hide show the keyboard

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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  amp  amp  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

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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

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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

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Here are the best solutions  Solution 1  Set the inputType to    text      lt 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    gt    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

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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

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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

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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  amp  amp    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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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protected void hideSoftKeyboard EditText input        InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE       imm hideSoftInputFromWindow input getWindowToken    0

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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

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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

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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

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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

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For Xamarin Android   public void HideKeyboard         var imm   activity GetSystemService Context InputMethodService  JavaCast lt InputMethodManager gt         var view   activity CurrentFocus    new View activity       imm HideSoftInputFromWindow view WindowToken  HideSoftInputFlags None

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use this  this getWindow   setSoftInputMode              WindowManager LayoutParams SOFT INPUT STATE ALWAYS HIDDEN

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

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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

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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

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KOTLIN SOLUTION IN A FRAGMENT  fun hideSoftKeyboard             val view   activity  currentFocus         view  let   v - gt              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  quot stateAlwaysHidden quot

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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

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This code snippet can helped       final InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE       if  inputMethodManager    null  amp  amp  inputMethodManager isActive              if  getCurrentFocus      null                inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow getCurrentFocus   getWindowToken    0                     It can be called in different methods according to need  ex  onPause  onResume  onRestart

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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  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 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

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To help clarify this madness  I d like to begin by apologizing on behalf of all Android users for Google s downright ridiculous treatment of the soft keyboard  The reason there are so many answers  each different  for the same simple question is that this API  like many others in Android  is horribly designed  I can think of no polite way to state it  I want to hide the keyboard   I expect to provide Android with the following statement  Keyboard hide    The end  Thank you very much   But Android has a problem   You must use the InputMethodManager to hide the keyboard  OK  fine  this is Android s API to the keyboard  BUT  You are required to have a Context in order to get access to the IMM  Now we have a problem   I may want to hide the keyboard from a static or utility class that has no use or need for any Context  or And FAR worse  the IMM requires that you specify what View  or even worse  what Window  you want to hide the keyboard FROM  This is what makes hiding the keyboard so challenging  Dear Google  When I m looking up the recipe for a cake  there is no RecipeProvider on Earth that would refuse to provide me with the recipe unless I first answer WHO the cake will be eaten by AND where it will be eaten   This sad story ends with the ugly truth  to hide the Android keyboard  you will be required to provide 2 forms of identification  a Context and either a View or a Window  I have created a static utility method that can do the job VERY solidly  provided you call it from an Activity  public static void hideKeyboard Activity activity        InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  activity getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE         Find the currently focused view  so we can grab the correct window token from it      View view   activity getCurrentFocus          If no view currently has focus  create a new one  just so we can grab a window token from it     if  view    null            view   new View activity             imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0      Be aware that this utility method ONLY works when called from an Activity  The above method calls getCurrentFocus of the target Activity to fetch the proper window token  But suppose you want to hide the keyboard from an EditText hosted in a DialogFragment  You can t use the method above for that  hideKeyboard getActivity       won t work  This won t work because you ll be passing a reference to the Fragment s host Activity  which will have no focused control while the Fragment is shown  Wow  So  for hiding the keyboard from fragments  I resort to the lower-level  more common  and uglier  public static void hideKeyboardFrom Context context  View view        InputMethodManager imm    InputMethodManager  context getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE       imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0      Below is some additional information gleaned from more time wasted chasing this solution  About windowSoftInputMode There s yet another point of contention to be aware of  By default  Android will automatically assign initial focus to the first EditText or focusable control in your Activity   It naturally follows that the InputMethod  typically the soft keyboard  will respond to the focus event by showing itself  The windowSoftInputMode attribute in AndroidManifest xml  when set to stateAlwaysHidden  instructs the keyboard to ignore this automatically-assigned initial focus   lt activity     android name  quot  MyActivity quot      android windowSoftInputMode  quot stateAlwaysHidden quot   gt   Almost unbelievably  it appears to do nothing to prevent the keyboard from opening when you touch the control  unless focusable  quot false quot  and or focusableInTouchMode  quot false quot  are assigned to the control   Apparently  the windowSoftInputMode setting applies only to automatic focus events  not to focus events triggered by touch events  Therefore  stateAlwaysHidden is VERY poorly named indeed  It should perhaps be called ignoreInitialFocus instead  Hope this helps   UPDATE  More ways to get a window token If there is no focused view  e g  can happen if you just changed fragments   there are other views that will supply a useful window token  These are alternatives for the above code if  view    null    view   new View activity    These don t refer explicitly to your activity  Inside a fragment class  view   getView   getRootView   getWindowToken     Given a fragment fragment as a parameter  view   fragment getView   getRootView   getWindowToken     Starting from your content body  view   findViewById android R id content  getRootView   getWindowToken      UPDATE 2  Clear focus to avoid showing keyboard again if you open the app from the background Add this line to the end of the method  view clearFocus

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Try This one  public void disableSoftKeyboard final EditText v        if  Build VERSION SDK INT  gt   11            v setRawInputType InputType TYPE CLASS TEXT           v setTextIsSelectable true         else           v setRawInputType InputType TYPE NULL           v setFocusable true

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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

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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 - gt      val imm   getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as  InputMethodManager     imm  hideSoftInputFromWindow view windowToken  0

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public static void hideSoftKeyboard Activity activity        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  activity              getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE       inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow activity getCurrentFocus                getWindowToken    0

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fun hideKeyboard appCompatActivity  AppCompatActivity            val view   appCompatActivity currentFocus         val imm   appCompatActivity getSystemService Context INPUT METHOD SERVICE  as InputMethodManager         imm hideSoftInputFromWindow view windowToken  0

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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

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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    Temporarily hide the keyboard   It will re-appear again when a user focuses a new text field  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  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

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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

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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     lt activity  android name   activities MyActivity   android configChanges  keyboardHidden     gt

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Please try this below code in  onCreate   EditText edtView    EditText  findViewById R id editTextConvertValue   edtView setInputType InputType TYPE NULL

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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    lt EditText                android enabled  true      android focusable  true    gt

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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

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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

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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

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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  gt  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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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In  AndroidManifest xml under  lt activity   gt  set android windowSoftInputMode  stateAlwaysHidden

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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  amp  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

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private void hideSoftKeyboard         View view   getView        if  view    null            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager    InputMethodManager  getActivity                    getSystemService Activity INPUT METHOD SERVICE           inputMethodManager hideSoftInputFromWindow view getWindowToken    0

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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

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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

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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

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