How to dismiss keyboard in Android SearchView?

Question

I have a searchView in the ActionBar. I want to dismiss the keyboard when the user is done with input. I have the following queryTextListener on the searchView

final SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {      @Override      public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {          // Do something          return true;      }       @Override      public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {          showProgress();         // Do stuff, make async call          getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);          return true;      }  }; 

Based on similar questions, the following code should dismiss the keyboard, but it doesn't work in this case:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); 

I've also tried:

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

Neither one works. I'm not sure if this is a Honeycomb specific problem or if it's related to the searchView in the ActionBar, or both. Has anyone gotten this working or know why it does not work?

Answer 1

I was trying to do something similar. I needed to launch the SearchActivity from another Activity and have the search term appear on the opened search field when it loaded. I tried all the approaches above but finally (similar to Ridcully's answer above) I set a variable to SearchView in onCreateOptionsMenu() and then in onQueryTextSubmit() called clearFocus() on the SearchView when the user submitted a new search:

private SearchView searchView;  @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {     getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);     searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search)             .getActionView(); // set the reference to the searchView     searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);      searchMenuItem = (MenuItem) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);      searchMenuItem.expandActionView(); // expand the search action item automatically     searchView.setQuery("<put your search term here>", false); // fill in the search term by default     searchView.clearFocus(); // close the keyboard on load     return true; }  @Override public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {     performNewSearch(query);     searchView.clearFocus();     return true; } 

Answer 2

Simple, straight to the point and clean:

  @Override   public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {       // your search methods       searchView.clearFocus();       return true;   }