Hide Soft Keyboard using adb

Question

I want to hide soft keyboard using adb shell command. Is there any specific command available to do so or in any ways can I get the current focus window object over adb on which I can hide the keyboard if showing?

Answer 1

you can hide your keyboard with

adb shell input keyevent 111

you can find all keyevents are here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html

Answer 2

@Matthias Miro answer is 4.5 years old and it did not work for me with Android 9. Instead I found the following solution in a GitHub issue thread which worked:

1. Install Null Keyboard
2. Select it via ADB: adb shell ime set com.wparam.nullkeyboard/.NullKeyboard

to get your original keyboard back:

1. List all available keyboards: adb shell ime list -s -a
2. Select the one via: adb shell ime set [keyboard line from previous command]

Answer 3

I have found a faster and easier solution through adb, by disabling the keyboard entirely.

you can hide your keyboard permament with

adb shell pm disable-user com.android.inputmethod.latin