Edittext cursor still blinks after closing the soft keyboard

Question

Is an edittext cursor supposed to continue blinking after the soft keyboard is closed or is this a result of testing on an emulator and wouldn't happen on an actual device? -- as pointed out by the second post in this discussion

Update:

I know that the edittexts still have the cursor blinking because they're still in focus -- logged a message whenever edittext lost focus, but message was never logged when soft keyboard closed.

Update:

I've tried doing:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    super.onBackPressed();
    getCurrentFocus().clearFocus();
}

So that every time the keyboard is closed, the EditText currently in focus loses that focus and onFocusChanged() is called. The problem is that onBackPressed() isn't called when the back button is pressed when the keyboard is up. I know this because I put a toast in onBackPressed(), and no toast shows when the back button is pressed whilst the keyboard is up.

Answer 1

First create a custom Edit text. Below is the example which has a call back when keyboard back is pressed to dismiss the keyboard

public class EdittextListner extends EditText {

private KeyImeChange keyImeChangeListener;

public EdittextListner(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
}

public void setKeyImeChangeListener(KeyImeChange listener) {
    keyImeChangeListener = listener;
}

public interface KeyImeChange {
    public boolean onKeyIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event);
}

@Override
public boolean onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyImeChangeListener != null) {
        return keyImeChangeListener.onKeyIme(keyCode, event);
    }
    return false;
}

}

Secondly change your EditText to EdittextListner in you layout file.

Finally do the following

 mLastNameEditText.setKeyImeChangeListener(new EdittextListner.KeyImeChange() {
        @Override
        public boolean onKeyIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
            mLastNameEditText.clearFocus();
            return true;
        }
    });

This worked for me. Hope this helps

Answer 2

Edittext is a View which accept input from user, so it is not related with keyborad open or close, when user will click on edittext, that edittext will get focus and cursor will start to blink for taking input,

So you can do one thing as when you are closing keyboard at the same time you can also set visibility of cursor for that edittext so it will stop to blink,

For that you need to write below line when you hide keyboard.

    editTextObject.setCursorVisible(false);

This will stope cursor to blink.