How to clear focus and remove keyboard on Android?

Question

I have a EditText control. If I tap it the softkeyboard will popup however when I press \"enter/ok/return\" then the EditText control it still has focus and the keyboard up.

Answer 1

A Kotlin solution that works for me, removes all active focus and close the soft keyboard. Set android:focusableInTouchMode="true" on your parent layout. In my case I have a ScrollView as well. I am setting view.clearFocus() in its touch event listener. This will clear all the focus on any touched textview. Then I proceed to close the soft keyboard on screen.

Then in your class

scroll_view_container.setOnTouchListener { v, event ->
        view.clearFocus()
        hideSoftKeyboard()
        true
    }

private fun hideSoftKeyboard() {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    windowToken?.let{
        val imm = requireContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(it, 0)
    }
}