How to hide soft keyboard on android after clicking outside EditText?

Question

Ok everyone knows that to hide a keyboard you need to implement:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
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Answer 1

I have refined the method, put the following code in some UI utility class(preferably, not necessarily) so that it can be accessed from all your Activity or Fragment classes to serve its purpose.

public static void serachAndHideSoftKeybordFromView(View view, final Activity act) {
    if(!(view instanceof EditText)) {
        view.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                hideSoftKeyboard(act);
                return false;
            }
        });
    }
    if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
        for (int i = 0; i < ((ViewGroup) view).getChildCount(); i++) {
            View nextViewInHierarchy = ((ViewGroup) view).getChildAt(i);
            serachAndHideSoftKeybordFromView(nextViewInHierarchy, act);
        }
    }
}
public static void hideSoftKeyboard (Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Then say for example you need to call it from activity, call it as follows;

UIutils.serachAndHideSoftKeybordFromView(findViewById(android.R.id.content), YourActivityName.this);

Notice

findViewById(android.R.id.content)

This gives us the root view of the current group(you mustn't have set the id on root view).

Cheers :)