Hide Soft keyboard on return key press

Question

I\'ve searched half a dozen other answers on SO, but haven\'t found one that works. All I\'m trying to do is dismiss the soft keyboard when the user presses the enter butto

Answer 1

Try this method, It may be solve your problem.

protected void showKeyboard() {

            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            if (activity.getCurrentFocus() == null) {
                inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);
            } else {
                View view = activity.getCurrentFocus();
                inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view,InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
            }
        }

        /**
         * Hide keyboard.
         */
        protected void hideKeyboard() {

            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            View view = activity.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);
            }          
        }

Answer 2

Accepted answer is deprecated:

<EditText 
   android:id="@+id/edittext_done"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:imeOptions="actionDone"
   android:singleLine="true"
/>

Try with this:

<EditText 
   android:id="@+id/edittext_done"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:imeOptions="actionDone"
   android:maxLines="1"
/>

Answer 3

If you dont want multiple line,for you edittext you can just specify single line for the edittext and also you can put imeOptions as Done like this

<EditText 
   android:id="@+id/edittext_done"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:imeOptions="actionDone"
   android:singleLine="true"
   />

I clearly dunno whether you are trying to achieve this or not.Any way take a look.

EDIT: android:singleLine is deprecated since API 3 due to bad performance, you have to use android:maxLines instead. singleLine will be available because even now some effects are not supported by android:maxLines attribute.

Answer 4

Based on my tests, what is really required to dismiss the soft keyboard, when a user clicks the enter button, can be achieved simply by adding the code below to your EditText in xml.

android:imeOptions="actionDone"
android:inputType="textImeMultiLine"

No need for OnEditorActionListener or any other Java code.

Answer 5

This may be you could add a attribute to your EditText like this:

android:imeOptions="actionSearch"

Answer 6

I solved the issue by changing the following in the XML file from:

 android:inputType="textMultiLine"

to:

 android:inputType="textImeMultiLine"