Android dismiss keyboard

Question

How do I dismiss the keyboard when a button is pressed?

Answer 1

The first solution with InputMethodManager worked like a champ for me, the getWindow().setSoftInputMode method did not on android 4.0.3 HTC Amaze.

@Ethan Allen, I did not need to make the edit text final. Maybe you are using an EditText inner class that you declared the containing method? You could make the EditText a class variable of the Activity. Or just declare a new EditText inside the inner class / method and use findViewById() again. Also, I didn't find that I needed to know which EditText in the form had focus. I could just pick one arbitrarily and use it. Like so:

    EditText myEditText= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.anyEditTextInForm);  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);

Answer 2

The solution above doesn't work for all device and moreover it's using EditText as a parameter. This is my solution, just call this simple method:

private void hideSoftKeyBoard() {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

    if(imm.isAcceptingText()) { // verify if the soft keyboard is open                      
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

Answer 3

Here's a Kotlin solution (mixing the various answers in thread)

Create an extension function (perhaps in a common ViewHelpers class)

fun Activity.dismissKeyboard() {
    val inputMethodManager = getSystemService( Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE ) as InputMethodManager
    if( inputMethodManager.isAcceptingText )
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow( this.currentFocus.windowToken, /*flags:*/ 0)
}

Then simply consume using:

// from activity
this.dismissKeyboard()

// from fragment
activity.dismissKeyboard()