How to dismiss the keyboard in appium using Java?

Question

This code just aims to find the textbox and send some text to it. When it does that the keyboard appears on the android device.How to dismiss it after the sendKeys.

Answer 1

driver.hideKeyboard() will only work with AppiumDriver. I am using java-client-2.2.0.jar that contains this capability.

Answer 2

public static AndroidDriver driver= null;
......

driver.hideKeyboard();

will works perfectly based from my experience

Answer 3

Solution for those who are not using AppiumDriver:

((AppiumDriver)driver).hideKeyboard(); 

Answer 4

Best way is to use the back button.

driver.navigate().back(); // For older version of appium

Answer 5

I use driver.hideKeyboard(); every time I'm using sendKeys() to type something. Works perfectly for me.

Answer 6

Add these desired capabilities values if you want to disable the keyboard on your android selenium tests.

capabilities.setCapability("unicodeKeyboard", true);
capabilities.setCapability("resetKeyboard", true);