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

Please use Appium 1.0

Add libraries or add maven dependency of Appium Java client:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
  <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Create driver instance in the following way:

AppiumDriver driver=null;
driver= new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"),capabilities);

And use the following function to hide the keyboard:

driver.hideKeyboard();

Answer 2

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

Still works with 1.7.2 and assuming 1.8