How to clear focus and remove keyboard on Android?

Question

I have a EditText control. If I tap it the softkeyboard will popup however when I press \"enter/ok/return\" then the EditText control it still has focus and the keyboard up.

Answer 1

In the layout XML file, specify an imeOption on your EditText:

android:imeOptions="actionGo"

Next, add an action listener to your EditText in the Activity's java file

    mYourEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_GO) {
                // hide virtual keyboard
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mYourEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

Where mYourEditText is an EditText object

Answer 2

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editTextField.getWindowToken(), 0);

Answer 3

private void hideDefaultKeyboard() {
    activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
   //you have got lot of methods here
}

Answer 4

You could try doing SetFocus() on another element in your layout.

If you are talking about the "enter/ok/return" button on the keyboard itself you may have to set up a KeyListener on the EditText control in order to know when to SetFocus() on another element.

Answer 5

A Kotlin solution that works for me, removes all active focus and close the soft keyboard. Set android:focusableInTouchMode="true" on your parent layout. In my case I have a ScrollView as well. I am setting view.clearFocus() in its touch event listener. This will clear all the focus on any touched textview. Then I proceed to close the soft keyboard on screen.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    ...
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" //<--- this is important

    tools:context=".SomFragment">

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/scroll_view_container"
        ...
        >


        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/sone_text_1"
            ...
             />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/sone_text_2"
            ...
             />

Then in your class

scroll_view_container.setOnTouchListener { v, event ->
        view.clearFocus()
        hideSoftKeyboard()
        true
    }

private fun hideSoftKeyboard() {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    windowToken?.let{
        val imm = requireContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(it, 0)
    }
}

Answer 6

Make sure your EditText XML has :

android:id="@+id/myEditText"    
android:imeOptions="actionDone"

Then set listener to your EditText (with Kotlin, and from a fragment):

myEditText.setOnEditorActionListener({ v, actionId, event ->
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
                myEditText.clearFocus()
                val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view!!.windowToken, 0)    
            }
            false
        })