How to dismiss keyboard in Android SearchView?

Question

I have a searchView in the ActionBar. I want to dismiss the keyboard when the user is done with input. I have the following queryTextListener on the searchView

Answer 1

if someone is looking how to collpase searchView/keyboard, use below code

     /*
        setup close button listener
     */
    searchView.findViewById<ImageView>(R.id.search_close_btn).setOnClickListener {
        adapter.filter(null)//reset default list
        searchView.onActionViewCollapsed() //collapse SearchView/Keyboard
        true
    }

    /*
        setup text change listener
     */
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(object:SearchView.OnQueryTextListener{
        override fun onQueryTextSubmit(query: String?): Boolean {

            adapter.filter(if(query.isNullOrEmpty()) "" else query)

            searchView.onActionViewCollapsed() //collapse SearchView/Keyboard
            return true
        }

        override fun onQueryTextChange(newText: String?): Boolean {
            adapter.filter(if(newText.isNullOrEmpty()) "" else newText)
            return true
        }
    })

Answer 2

Simple, straight to the point and clean:

  @Override
  public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
      // your search methods
      searchView.clearFocus();
      return true;
  }

Answer 3

In a tablet app I'm working on with a dual pane activity, I've wrote only

f.getView().requestFocus(); // f is the target fragment for the search

and that was enough to dismiss the soft keyboard after a search. No need to use InputMethodManager

Answer 4

I used ActionBarSherlock 4.3 and I have a ProgressDialog. When I dismiss it in postExecute method, Searchview gain focus. To fix that:

//Handle intent and hide soft keyboard
    @Override
    protected void onNewIntent(Intent intent) {
        setIntent(intent);
        handleIntent(intent);
        searchView.setQuery("", false);
        searchView.setIconified(true);
        searchView.clearFocus();
    }

    /*When dismiss ProgressDialog, searchview gain focus again and shows the keyboard. I  call clearFocus() to avoid it.*/

    AsyncTask.onPostExecute(){
      if(pd!=null)
        pd.dismiss();
      if(searchView!=null)
        searchView.clearFocus();
    }

Hope it helps.

Answer 5

Somehow it works if you call

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

and then

otherWidget.requestFocus();

Answer 6

Edit: I added the better solution on top, but also kept the old answer as a reference.

 @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {

                  searchView.clearFocus();
            return false;
        }

Original Answer: I programmed using a setOnQueryTextListener. When the searchview is hidden the keyboard goes away and then when it is visible again the keyboard does not pop back up.

    //set query change listener
     searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener(){
        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return false;
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
            /**
             * hides and then unhides search tab to make sure keyboard disappears when query is submitted
             */
                  searchView.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
                  searchView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            return false;
        }

     });