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

There is a simpler approach, based on iPhone same issue. Simply override the background's layout on touch event, where the edit text is contained. Just use this code in the activity's OnCreate (login_fondo is the root layout):

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

Answer 2

Just Add this code in the class @Overide

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);
}

Answer 3

I find the accepted answer bit complex for this simple requirement. Here's what worked for me without any glitch.

findViewById(R.id.mainLayout).setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent motionEvent) {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
            return false;
        }
    });

Answer 4

You can achieve this by doing the following steps:

1. Make the parent view(content view of your activity) clickable and focusable by adding the following attributes

       android:clickable="true" 
       android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 
   

2. Implement a hideKeyboard() method

       public void hideKeyboard(View view) {
           InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
           inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
       }
   

3. Lastly, set the onFocusChangeListener of your edittext.

       edittext.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
           @Override
           public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
               if (!hasFocus) {
                   hideKeyboard(v);
               }
           }
       });
   

As pointed out in one of the comments below, this might not work if the parent view is a ScrollView. For such case, the clickable and focusableInTouchMode may be added on the view directly under the ScrollView.

Answer 5

Override public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) in any Activity (or extend class of Activity)

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

    if (view 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];

        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;
}

And that's all you need to do

Answer 6

This may be old but I got this working by implenting a custom class

public class DismissKeyboardListener implements OnClickListener {

    Activity mAct;

    public DismissKeyboardListener(Activity act) {
        this.mAct = act;
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        if ( v instanceof ViewGroup ) {
            hideSoftKeyboard( this.mAct );
        }
    }       
}

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

the best practice here is to create a Helper class and every container Relative / Linear Layouts should implement this.

**** Take note only the main Container should implement this class (For optimization) ****

and implement it like this :

Parent.setOnClickListener( new DismissKeyboardListener(this) ); 

the keyword this is for Activity. so if you are on fragment you use like getActivity();

---thumbs up if it help you... --- cheers Ralph ---