Unfocus EditText when keyboard is dismissed

Question

I want to achieve a simple task of unfocusing EditText (not hide cursor) when keyboard is dismissed, either by hitting the done or the return button. All I can find so far is

window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)

But it is only good when the activity is first opened up. After keyboard is dismissed, text field is left in an awkward focused state.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 09 '18 at 15:04

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You could listen for an event when keyboard is dismissed and then use editText.clearFocus(); when that event happens.

Refer to this answer for listening to keyboard dismiss events

edited Aug 09 '18 at 15:04

Jeeter

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answered Aug 09 '18 at 15:02

Tomas Jablonskis

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what if I have three edit texts and want to clear focus – Jack Guo Aug 09 '18 at 15:05
then call `clearFocus();` function on all of them when keyboard is dismissed. Simple. – Tomas Jablonskis Aug 09 '18 at 15:06
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Worked, can't believe this is how Android still works in 2018 – Jack Guo Aug 09 '18 at 16:01
It does actually have these kind of quirks, but we have to deal with it at the moment. Future is bright i think :) – Tomas Jablonskis Aug 09 '18 at 16:02
If your are adding dynamic component you can get the child components from the parent and loop each element and you can clear the focus – Ishan Fernando Aug 09 '18 at 16:12
For checking for keyboard dismissal, this answer was simple, didn't feel like a hack, and worked beautifully for me https://stackoverflow.com/a/53013309/3718756 – jhwblender Nov 02 '22 at 23:03

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 12 '19 at 16:08

I can't believe this is the easiest solution I could find to this problem (really, Android?):

public class CustomEditText extends EditText {

    public CustomEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        this.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
                if (actionId == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENDCALL) {
                    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)v.getContext()
                        .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(CustomEditText.this.getWindowToken(), 0);
                    CustomEditText.this.clearFocus();
                    return true;
                }
                return false;
            }
        });
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
        if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            this.clearFocus();
        }
        return super.onKeyPreIme(keyCode, event);
    }

}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 21 '18 at 06:44

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You can clear the focus from edit text and also manage the enable/disable edit text.

answered Aug 21 '18 at 06:44

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 25 '20 at 17:58

Kotlin version:

class CustomEditText: AppCompatEditText {
    constructor(context: Context) : super(context)
    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet) : super(context, attrs)
    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet, defStyle: Int) : super(context, attrs, defStyle)

    override fun onKeyPreIme(keyCode: Int, event: KeyEvent?): Boolean {
        if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK) {
            clearFocus()
        }
        return super.onKeyPreIme(keyCode, event)
    }
}

Usage:

<com.youappdomain.view.CustomEditText
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

Unfocus EditText when keyboard is dismissed

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