Best way to hide keyboard in Android

Question

I would like to know the best way to hide keyboard after entering the text to EditText.

1) setonfocuschangelistener : Does this listener is fired only, when the done button is pressed or when the focus changes from one EditText to other? When I used this method, I couldn't hide the keyboard.

2) setOnTouchListener : When I used this, I could hide the keyboard, but i doubt there might be an issue with this. In this case, I add the touch listener to the root LinearLayout. Following code I had used:

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.login);

    txtUserName = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.txtUserName);
    btnLogin = (Button)findViewById(R.id.btnLogin);
    layoutView = (LinearLayout)findViewById(R.id.li);

    layoutView.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
            InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(txtUserName
                    .getWindowToken(), 0);
            return true;
        }
    });
}

Inside the main LinearLayout, I am using other two LinearLayouts. The issue that i faced with the above code is that at some points when I pressed, the keyboard doesn't hides. My doubt is that I am adding touch listener only with root layout, not giving touch listener with other inner layouts or other controls(TextView). When I touch over other controls or some points around the TextView(ie, inner layouts), keyboard doesn't hides.

That means do i need to add touchListener to all layouts or controls inside the root layout? How this situation can be handled in a better way?

Answer 1

You can use this code

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

Answer 2

My answer on this question:

Add this method:

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
  InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)  activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
  inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

If you want to hide keyboard when you touch screen, you can do by this way:

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
 hideSoftKeyboard(LoginActivity.this);
 return false;
}

Hope this will help you.