android edittext remove focus after clicking a button

Question

I have an Activity with an EditText and a Button. When the User clicks on the EditText, the keyboard is shown and he can type in some Text - fine. But when the user clicks on the Button I want the EditText to be no more in focus i.e. the keyboard hides til the user clicks again on the EditText.

What can I do to 'hide the focus' of the EditText, after the Button is clicked. Some Code I can add in the OnClick Method of the Button to do that?

EDIT:

<LinearLayout      android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:orientation="horizontal" >      <EditText          android:id="@+id/edt_SearchDest"         android:layout_width="0dip"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_weight="0.8"         android:textSize="18sp"         android:hint="Enter your look-up here.." />      <Button         android:id="@+id/btn_SearchDest"         android:layout_width="0dip"         android:layout_height="wrap_content"         android:layout_weight="0.2"         android:text="Search" />  </LinearLayout> 

Best Regards

Answer 1

Put this in your button listener:

InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);   inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS); 

EDIT

The solution above will break your app if no EditText is focused on. Modify your code like this:

add this method to you class:

public static void hideSoftKeyboard (Activity activity, View view)  {     InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);     imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0); } 

Then, in your button listener, call the method like this:

hideSoftKeyboard(MainActivity.this, v); // MainActivity is the name of the class and v is the View parameter used in the button listener method onClick.