Hiding soft keyboard without having focus

Question

I am using a FrameLayout to show an EditText and a ListView (with checkboxes) alternately. When showing an EditText, I would like the soft keyboard to be shown. And when showing the ListView, I would like the soft keyboard to be hidden. Now usually a focus is needed in order to hide the soft keyboard. When my ListView gets shown, then getCurrentFocus() returns null. Is there a way to hide the soft keyboard, without having a focus?

I am showing the soft keyboard like that:

public static void requestFocusAndMoveCursorToTheEndAndShowKeyboard(final EditText editTextParam, final Activity activityParam) {
    if (editTextParam == null) {
        return;
    }

    if (editTextParam.requestFocus()) {
        editTextParam.setSelection(editTextParam.getText().length()); // move Cursor to the end of the EditText
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activityParam.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
    }
}

And I am trying to hide the soft keyboard like that:

public static void hideSoftInputKeyboardFromWindow(Activity activityParam) {
    if (activityParam == null) {
        return;
    }

    View view = activityParam.getCurrentFocus();
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activityParam.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:12

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Make use of .clearFocus(); on edittext when you don't want a focus on it.

answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:12

Fahim

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:13

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In your AndroidMenifest.xml add this:

<activity android:name="com.your.package.ActivityName"
      android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"  />

answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:13

Mohammad Arman

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:38

Try this: Write following method to youractivity or to your utility class

/**
 * Hide soft keypad
 * 
 */


public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity, View v) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:39

In your hideSoftInputKeyboardFromWindow method, try:

inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);

instead of

inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

Edit: ok same answer as Dorami

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:41

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How do you show them alternately? Using different fragments? Or do you simply inflate different layouts? Provide more details with your complete code

answered Mar 26 '15 at 11:41

priyank

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

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Thank you for your answers. Finally I got it solved using a View.OnFocusChangeListener for the EditText, like described here:

Hide soft keyboard on losing focus

edited May 23 '17 at 11:53

Community

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answered Mar 26 '15 at 17:23

dev456

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Hiding soft keyboard without having focus

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