How to close/hide the Android soft keyboard programmatically?

I have an EditText and a Button in my layout.

After writing in the edit field and clicking on the Button, I want to hide the virtual keyboard when touching outside the keyboard. I assume that this is a simple piece of code, but where can I find an example of it?

You can force Android to hide the virtual keyboard using the InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow, passing in the token of the window containing your focused view.

// Check if no view has focus:
View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

This will force the keyboard to be hidden in all situations. In some cases, you will want to pass in InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY as the second parameter to ensure you only hide the keyboard when the user didn't explicitly force it to appear (by holding down the menu).

Note: If you want to do this in Kotlin, use: context?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager

Kotlin Syntax

// Only runs if there is a view that is currently focused
this.currentFocus?.let { view ->
    val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager
    imm?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
}

To help clarify this madness, I'd like to begin by apologizing on behalf of all Android users for Google's downright ridiculous treatment of the soft keyboard. The reason there are so many answers, each different, for the same simple question is that this API, like many others in Android, is horribly designed. I can think of no polite way to state it.

I want to hide the keyboard. I expect to provide Android with the following statement: Keyboard.hide(). The end. Thank you very much. But Android has a problem. You must use the InputMethodManager to hide the keyboard. OK, fine, this is Android's API to the keyboard. BUT! You are required to have a Context in order to get access to the IMM. Now we have a problem. I may want to hide the keyboard from a static or utility class that has no use or need for any Context. or And FAR worse, the IMM requires that you specify what View (or even worse, what Window) you want to hide the keyboard FROM.

This is what makes hiding the keyboard so challenging. Dear Google: When I'm looking up the recipe for a cake, there is no RecipeProvider on Earth that would refuse to provide me with the recipe unless I first answer WHO the cake will be eaten by AND where it will be eaten!!

This sad story ends with the ugly truth: to hide the Android keyboard, you will be required to provide 2 forms of identification: a Context and either a View or a Window.

I have created a static utility method that can do the job VERY solidly, provided you call it from an Activity.

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
	InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	//Find the currently focused view, so we can grab the correct window token from it.
	View view = activity.getCurrentFocus();
	//If no view currently has focus, create a new one, just so we can grab a window token from it
	if (view == null) {
		view = new View(activity);
	}
	imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Be aware that this utility method ONLY works when called from an Activity! The above method calls getCurrentFocus of the target Activity to fetch the proper window token.

But suppose you want to hide the keyboard from an EditText hosted in a DialogFragment? You can't use the method above for that:

hideKeyboard(getActivity()); //won't work

This won't work because you'll be passing a reference to the Fragment's host Activity, which will have no focused control while the Fragment is shown! Wow! So, for hiding the keyboard from fragments, I resort to the lower-level, more common, and uglier:

public static void hideKeyboardFrom(Context context, View view) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Below is some additional information gleaned from more time wasted chasing this solution:

About windowSoftInputMode

There's yet another point of contention to be aware of. By default, Android will automatically assign initial focus to the first EditText or focusable control in your Activity. It naturally follows that the InputMethod (typically the soft keyboard) will respond to the focus event by showing itself. The windowSoftInputMode attribute in AndroidManifest.xml, when set to stateAlwaysHidden, instructs the keyboard to ignore this automatically-assigned initial focus.

<activity
    android:name=".MyActivity"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"/>

Almost unbelievably, it appears to do nothing to prevent the keyboard from opening when you touch the control (unless focusable="false" and/or focusableInTouchMode="false" are assigned to the control). Apparently, the windowSoftInputMode setting applies only to automatic focus events, not to focus events triggered by touch events.

Therefore, stateAlwaysHidden is VERY poorly named indeed. It should perhaps be called ignoreInitialFocus instead.

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UPDATE: More ways to get a window token

If there is no focused view (e.g. can happen if you just changed fragments), there are other views that will supply a useful window token.

These are alternatives for the above code if (view == null) view = new View(activity); These don't refer explicitly to your activity.

Inside a fragment class:

view = getView().getRootView().getWindowToken();

Given a fragment fragment as a parameter:

view = fragment.getView().getRootView().getWindowToken();

Starting from your content body:

view = findViewById(android.R.id.content).getRootView().getWindowToken();

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UPDATE 2: Clear focus to avoid showing keyboard again if you open the app from the background

Add this line to the end of the method:

view.clearFocus();

Also useful for hiding the soft-keyboard is:

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

This can be used to suppress the soft-keyboard until the user actually touches the editText View.

I got one more solution to hide keyboard:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);

Here pass HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY at the position of showFlag and 0 at the position of hiddenFlag. It will forcefully close soft Keyboard.

Meier's solution works for me too. In my case, the top level of my App is a tab host and I want to hide the keyword when switching tabs - I get the window token from the tab host View.

tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() {
    public void onTabChanged(String tabId) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(tabHost.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

Please try this below code in onCreate()

EditText edtView = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editTextConvertValue);
edtView.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);

Update: I don't know why this solution is not work any more ( I just tested on Android 23). Please use the solution of Saurabh Pareek instead. Here it is:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
//Hide:
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
//Show
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);

Old answer:

//Show soft-keyboard:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
//hide keyboard :
 getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

protected void hideSoftKeyboard(EditText input) {
	InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(input.getWindowToken(), 0);    
}

If all the other answers here don't work for you as you would like them to, there's another way of manually controlling the keyboard.

Create a function with that will manage some of the EditText's properties:

public void setEditTextFocus(boolean isFocused) {
	searchEditText.setCursorVisible(isFocused);
	searchEditText.setFocusable(isFocused);
	searchEditText.setFocusableInTouchMode(isFocused);

	if (isFocused) {
		searchEditText.requestFocus();
	}
}

Then, make sure that onFocus of the EditText you open/close the keyboard:

searchEditText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (v == searchEditText) {
            if (hasFocus) {
                // Open keyboard
                ((InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).showSoftInput(searchEditText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
            } else {
                // Close keyboard
                ((InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow(searchEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
    }
});

Now, whenever you want to open the keyboard manually call:

setEditTextFocus(true);

And for closing call:

setEditTextFocus(false);

Saurabh Pareek has the best answer so far.

Might as well use the correct flags, though.

/* hide keyboard */
((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
    .toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);

/* show keyboard */
((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
    .toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

Example of real use

/* click button */
public void onClick(View view) {      
  /* hide keyboard */
  ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
      .toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);

  /* start loader to check parameters ... */
}

/* loader finished */
public void onLoadFinished(Loader<Object> loader, Object data) {
    /* parameters not valid ... */
    
    /* show keyboard */
    ((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
        .toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
    
    /* parameters valid ... */
}

from so searching, here I found an answer that works for me

// Show soft-keyboard:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

// Hide soft-keyboard:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

The short answer

In your OnClick listener call the onEditorAction of the EditText with IME_ACTION_DONE

button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        someEditText.onEditorAction(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE)
    }
});

The drill-down

I feel this method is better, simpler and more aligned with Android's design pattern. In the simple example above (and usually in most of the common cases) you'll have an EditText that has/had focus and it also usually was the one to invoke the keyboard in the first place (it is definitely able to invoke it in many common scenarios). In that same way, it should be the one to release the keyboard, usually that can be done by an ImeAction. Just see how an EditText with android:imeOptions="actionDone" behaves, you want to achieve the same behavior by the same means.

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Check this related answer

This should work:

public class KeyBoard {

    public static void show(Activity activity){
	    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	    imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY); // show
    }

    public static void hide(Activity activity){
	    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0); // hide
    }

    public static void toggle(Activity activity){
	    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	    if (imm.isActive()){
		    hide(activity); 
	    } else {
		    show(activity); 
	    }
    }
}

KeyBoard.toggle(activity);

I'm using a custom keyboard to input an Hex number so I can't have the IMM keyboard show up...

In v3.2.4_r1 setSoftInputShownOnFocus(boolean show) was added to control weather or not to display the keyboard when a TextView gets focus, but its still hidden so reflection must be used:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB_MR2) {
    try {
        Method method = TextView.class.getMethod("setSoftInputShownOnFocus", boolean.class);
        method.invoke(mEditText, false);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // Fallback to the second method
    }
}

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For older versions, I got very good results (but far from perfect) with a OnGlobalLayoutListener, added with the aid of a ViewTreeObserver from my root view and then checking if the keyboard is shown like this:

@Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
    Configuration config = getResources().getConfiguration();

    // Dont allow the default keyboard to show up
    if (config.keyboardHidden != Configuration.KEYBOARDHIDDEN_YES) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mRootView.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

This last solution may show the keyboard for a split second and messes with the selection handles.

When in the keyboard enters full screen, onGlobalLayout isn't called. To avoid that, use TextView#setImeOptions(int) or in the TextView XML declaration:

android:imeOptions="actionNone|actionUnspecified|flagNoFullscreen|flagNoExtractUi"

Update: Just found what dialogs use to never show the keyboard and works in all versions:

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM,
        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);

public void setKeyboardVisibility(boolean show) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if(show){
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
    }else{
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),0);
    }
}

I have spent more than two days working through all of the solutions posted in the thread and have found them lacking in one way or another. My exact requirement is to have a button that will with 100% reliability show or hide the on screen keyboard. When the keyboard is in its hidden state is should not re-appear, no matter what input fields the user clicks on. When it is in its visible state the keyboard should not disappear no matter what buttons the user clicks. This needs to work on Android 2.2+ all the way up to the latest devices.

You can see a working implementation of this in my app clean RPN.

After testing many of the suggested answers on a number of different phones (including froyo and gingerbread devices) it became apparent that android apps can reliably:

1. Temporarily hide the keyboard. It will re-appear again when a user focuses a new text field.
2. Show the keyboard when an activity starts and set a flag on the activity indicating that they keyboard should always be visible. This flag can only be set when an activity is initialising.
3. Mark an activity to never show or allow the use of the keyboard. This flag can only be set when an activity is initialising.

For me, temporarily hiding the keyboard is not enough. On some devices it will re-appear as soon as a new text field is focused. As my app uses multiple text fields on one page, focusing a new text field will cause the hidden keyboard to pop back up again.

Unfortunately item 2 and 3 on the list only work reliability when an activity is being started. Once the activity has become visible you cannot permanently hide or show the keyboard. The trick is to actually restart your activity when the user presses the keyboard toggle button. In my app when the user presses on the toggle keyboard button, the following code runs:

private void toggleKeyboard(){

	if(keypadPager.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE){
		Intent i = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
		i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);
		Bundle state = new Bundle();
		onSaveInstanceState(state);
		state.putBoolean(SHOW_KEYBOARD, true);
		i.putExtras(state);

		startActivity(i);
	}
	else{
		Intent i = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
		i.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NO_ANIMATION);
		Bundle state = new Bundle();
		onSaveInstanceState(state);
		state.putBoolean(SHOW_KEYBOARD, false);
		i.putExtras(state);

		startActivity(i);
	}
}

This causes the current activity to have its state saved into a Bundle, and then the activity is started, passing through an boolean which indicates if the keyboard should be shown or hidden.

Inside the onCreate method the following code is run:

if(bundle.getBoolean(SHOW_KEYBOARD)){
	((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).showSoftInput(newEquationText,0);
	getWindow().setSoftInputMode(LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
}
else{
	getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM,
	        WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM);
}

If the soft keyboard should be shown, then the InputMethodManager is told to show the keyboard and the window is instructed to make the soft input always visible. If the soft keyboard should be hidden then the WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_ALT_FOCUSABLE_IM is set.

This approach works reliably on all devices I have tested on - from a 4 year old HTC phone running android 2.2 up to a nexus 7 running 4.2.2. The only disadvantage with this approach is you need to be careful with handling the back button. As my app essentially only has one screen (its a calculator) I can override onBackPressed() and return to the devices home screen.

Alternatively to this all around solution, if you wanted to close the soft keyboard from anywhere without having a reference to the (EditText) field that was used to open the keyboard, but still wanted to do it if the field was focused, you could use this (from an Activity):

if (getCurrentFocus() != null) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Thank God its officially supported after 11 years

First add dependency implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.7.0' to app gradle

Here is the simple project on github

import android.app.Activity
import android.content.Context
import android.view.View
import androidx.core.view.WindowInsetsCompat
import androidx.core.view.WindowInsetsControllerCompat
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment
import androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity


fun View.showKeyboard() = (this.context as? Activity)?.showKeyboard()
fun View.hideKeyboard() = (this.context as? Activity)?.hideKeyboard()

fun Fragment.showKeyboard() = activity?.let(FragmentActivity::showKeyboard)
fun Fragment.hideKeyboard() = activity?.hideKeyboard()

fun Context.showKeyboard() = (this as? Activity)?.showKeyboard()
fun Context.hideKeyboard() = (this as? Activity)?.hideKeyboard()

fun Activity.showKeyboard() = WindowInsetsControllerCompat(window, window.decorView).show(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.ime())
fun Activity.hideKeyboard() = WindowInsetsControllerCompat(window, window.decorView).hide(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.ime())

Thanks to this SO answer, I derived the following which, in my case, works nicely when scrolling through the the fragments of a ViewPager...

private void hideKeyboard() {   
    // Check if no view has focus:
    View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

private void showKeyboard() {   
    // Check if no view has focus:
    View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputManager.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
    }
}

Above answers work for different scenario's but If you want to hide the keyboard inside a view and struggling to get the right context try this:

setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        hideSoftKeyBoardOnTabClicked(v);
    }
}

private void hideSoftKeyBoardOnTabClicked(View v) {
    if (v != null && context != null) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getApplicationWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
}

and to get the context fetch it from constructor:)

public View/RelativeLayout/so and so (Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    this.context = context;
    init();
}

If you want to close the soft keyboard during a unit or functional test, you can do so by clicking the "back button" from your test:

// Close the soft keyboard from a Test
getInstrumentation().sendKeyDownUpSync(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK);

I put "back button" in quotes, since the above doesn't trigger the onBackPressed() for the Activity in question. It just closes the keyboard.

Make sure to pause for a little while before moving on, since it takes a little while to close the back button, so subsequent clicks to Views, etc., won't be registered until after a short pause (1 second is long enough ime).

Now, almost 12 years later, we finally have an official, backwards compatible way to do this with AndroidX Core 1.5+:

fun View.hideKeyboard() = ViewCompat.getWindowInsetsController(this)
    ?.hide(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.ime())

or specifically for Fragment:

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard() = ViewCompat.getWindowInsetsController(requireView())
    ?.hide(WindowInsetsCompat.Type.ime())

Here's how you do it in Mono for Android (AKA MonoDroid)

InputMethodManager imm = GetSystemService (Context.InputMethodService) as InputMethodManager;
if (imm != null)
	imm.HideSoftInputFromWindow (searchbox.WindowToken , 0);

This worked for me for all the bizarre keyboard behavior

private boolean isKeyboardVisible() {
    Rect r = new Rect();
	//r will be populated with the coordinates of your view that area still visible.
	mRootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

	int heightDiff = mRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
	return heightDiff > 100; // if more than 100 pixels, its probably a keyboard...
}

protected void showKeyboard() {
	if (isKeyboardVisible())
		return;
	InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	if (getCurrentFocus() == null) {
		inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
	} else {
		View view = getCurrentFocus();
		inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
	}
}

protected void hideKeyboard() {
	if (!isKeyboardVisible())
		return;
	InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	View view = getCurrentFocus();
	if (view == null) {
		if (inputMethodManager.isAcceptingText())
			inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS, 0);
	} else {
		if (view instanceof EditText)
			((EditText) view).setText(((EditText) view).getText().toString()); // reset edit text bug on some keyboards bug
		inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromInputMethod(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
	}
}

Simple and Easy to use method, just call hideKeyboardFrom(YourActivity.this); to hide keyboard

/**
 * This method is used to hide keyboard
 * @param activity
 */
public static void hideKeyboardFrom(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Just use this optimized code in your activity:

if (this.getCurrentFocus() != null) {
    InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}

Add to your activity android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" in Manifest file. Example:

<activity
            android:name=".ui.activity.MainActivity"
            android:label="@string/mainactivity"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"/>

• Kotlin Version via Extension Function

Using kotlin extension functions, it'd be so simple to show and hide the soft keyboard.

ExtensionFunctions.kt

import android.app.Activity
import android.view.View
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager
import android.widget.EditText
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment

fun Activity.hideKeyboard(): Boolean {
    return (getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
        .hideSoftInputFromWindow((currentFocus ?: View(this)).windowToken, 0)
}

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard(): Boolean {
    return (context?.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
        .hideSoftInputFromWindow((activity?.currentFocus ?: View(context)).windowToken, 0)
}

fun EditText.hideKeyboard(): Boolean {
    return (context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
        .hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
}

fun EditText.showKeyboard(): Boolean {
    return (context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
        .showSoftInput(this, 0)
}

• Usage

Now in your Activity or Fragment, hideKeyboard() is clearly accessible as well as calling it from an instance of EditText like:

editText.hideKeyboard()

I have the case, where my EditText can be located also in an AlertDialog, so the keyboard should be closed on dismiss. The following code seems to be working anywhere:

public static void hideKeyboard( Activity activity ) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)activity.getSystemService( Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE );
    View f = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    if( null != f && null != f.getWindowToken() && EditText.class.isAssignableFrom( f.getClass() ) )
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow( f.getWindowToken(), 0 );
    else 
        activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode( WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN );
}

For Open Keyboard :

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(edtView, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

For Close/Hide Keyboard :

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

Works like magic touch every time

private void closeKeyboard() {
    InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager)getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getActivity().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

}

private void openKeyboard() {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if(imm != null){
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);
    }
}

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

after that call on onTouchListener:

findViewById(android.R.id.content).setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        Utils.hideSoftKeyboard(activity);
        return false;
    }
});

use this

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

For my case, I was using the a SearchView in the actionbar. After a user performs a search, the keyboard would pop open again.

Using the InputMethodManager did not close the keyboard. I had to clearFocus and set the focusable of the search view to false:

mSearchView.clearFocus();
mSearchView.setFocusable(false);

I have almost tried all of these answers, I had some random issues especially with the samsung galaxy s5.

What I end up with is forcing the show and hide, and it works perfectly:

/**
 * Force show softKeyboard.
 */
public static void forceShow(@NonNull Context context) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
}

/**
 * Force hide softKeyboard.
 */
public static void forceHide(@NonNull Activity activity, @NonNull EditText editText) {
    if (activity.getCurrentFocus() == null || !(activity.getCurrentFocus() instanceof EditText)) {
        editText.requestFocus();
    }
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
    activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
}

In some cases this methods can works except of all others. This saves my day :)

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    if (activity != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (activity.getCurrentFocus() != null && inputManager != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromInputMethod(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }
}

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(View view) {
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) view.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (inputManager != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }
}

You could also look into using setImeOption on the EditText.

I just had a very simular situation where my layout contained an EditText and a search button. When I discovered I could just set the ime option to "actionSearch" on my editText, I realized I didn't even need a search button anymore. The soft keyboard (in this mode) has a search icon, which can be used to kick off the search (and the keyboard closes itself as you would expect).

sometimes all you want is the enter button to fold the keyboard give the EditText box you have the attribute

 android:imeOptions="actionDone" 

this will change the Enter button to a Done button that will close the keyboard.

Just call the below method it will hide your keyboard if its showing.

public void hideKeyboard() {
    try {
        InputMethodManager inputmanager = (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (inputmanager != null) {
            inputmanager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    } catch (Exception var2) {
    }

}

Using AndroidX, we are going to get an amazing way to show/ hide keyboards. Read the Release Notes - 1.5.0-alpha02. Now how to hide/ show Keyboard

val controller = view.windowInsetsController

// Show the keyboard
controller.show(Type.ime())
// Hide the keyboard
controller.hide(Type.ime())

Linking my own answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2150078/how-to-check-visibility-of-software-keyboard-in-android/63595830#63595830 and an Amazing blog which includes more of this change (even more than it).

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

It works for me..

EditText editText=(EditText)findViewById(R.id.edittext1);

put below line of code in onClick()

editText.setFocusable(false);
editText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);

here hide the keyboard when we click the Button and when we touch the EditText keyboard will be display.

(OR)

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

Sometime you can have an activity that contains a listview with rows that contains editText so you have to setup in manifest SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN then they keyboard shows up which is annoying.

The following workarround works if you place it at the end of onCreate

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
new Handler().postDelayed(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);
            }
        },100);

In AndroidManifest.xml under <activity..> set android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"

If you want to hide keyboard using Java code, then use this:

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

Or if you want to hide the keyboard always, then use this in your AndroidManifest:

 <activity
 android:name=".activities.MyActivity"
 android:configChanges="keyboardHidden"  />

Try this

• Simple you can call in your Activity

---

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

---

• In your MainActivitiy call this

---

 hideKeyboardwithoutPopulate(MainActivity.this);

---

this is Working..

Just Pass your current activity instance in the function

 public void isKeyBoardShow(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if (imm.isActive()) {
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0); // hide
    } else {
        imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY); // show
    }
}

I have written small extension for Kotlin if anyone interested, didn't test it much tho:

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard(context: Context = App.instance) {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    windowToken?.let {
        val imm = context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
    }
}

App.instance is static "this" Application object stored in Application

Update: In some cases windowToken is null. I have added additional way of closing keyboard using reflection to detect if keyboard is closed

/**
 * If no window token is found, keyboard is checked using reflection to know if keyboard visibility toggle is needed
 *
 * @param useReflection - whether to use reflection in case of no window token or not
 */
fun Fragment.hideKeyboard(context: Context = MainApp.instance, useReflection: Boolean = true) {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    val imm = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    windowToken?.let {
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
    } ?: run {
        if (useReflection) {
            try {
                if (getKeyboardHeight(imm) > 0) {
                    imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
                }
            } catch (exception: Exception) {
                Timber.e(exception)
            }
        }
    }
}

fun getKeyboardHeight(imm: InputMethodManager): Int = InputMethodManager::class.java.getMethod("getInputMethodWindowVisibleHeight").invoke(imm) as Int

If you use Kotlin for developing your application, it's really easy to do.

Add this extensions functions:

For Activity:

fun Activity.hideKeyboard() {
    val inputManager = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    val view = currentFocus
    if (view != null) {
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
    }
}

For Fragment:

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard() {
    activity?.let {
        val inputManager = it.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        val view = it.currentFocus
        if (view != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
        }
    }
}

Now you can simple call in your Fragment or Activity:

 hideKeyboard()

For kotlin lovers. I have created two extension functions. For hideKeyboard fun, you can pass edittext's instance as a view.

fun Context.hideKeyboard(view: View) {
    (getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager)?.apply {
        hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
    }
}

fun Context.showKeyboard() {
    (getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager)?.apply {
        toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY)
    }
}

Actually, always Android authority is giving new updates but they are not handling their old drawbacks which all Android developers face in their development this should be handled by Android authority by default, on changing focus from EditText should hide/show soft input keyboard option. But sorry about that, they are not managing. Ok, leave it.

Below are the solutions to show/hide/toggle a keyboard option in Activity or Fragment.

Show keyboard for the view:

/**
 * open soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param context
 * @param view
 */
public static void showKeyBoard(Context context, View view) {
    try {
        InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        keyboard.showSoftInput(view, 0);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Show keyboard with Activity context:

/**
 * open soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param mActivity context
 */
public static void showKeyBoard(Activity mActivity) {
    try {
        View view = mActivity.getCurrentFocus();
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) mActivity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            keyboard.showSoftInputFromInputMethod(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Show keyboard with Fragment context:

/**
 * open soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param mFragment context
 */
public static void showKeyBoard(Fragment mFragment) {
    try {
        if (mFragment == null || mFragment.getActivity() == null) {
            return;
        }
        View view = mFragment.getActivity().getCurrentFocus();
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) mFragment.getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            keyboard.showSoftInputFromInputMethod(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Hide keyboard for the view:

/**
 * close soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param context
 * @param view
 */
public static void hideKeyBoard(Context context, View view) {
    try {
        InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        keyboard.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Hide keyboard with Activity context:

/**
 * close opened soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param mActivity context
 */
public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity mActivity) {
    try {
        View view = mActivity.getCurrentFocus();
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) mActivity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Hide keyboard with Fragment context:

/**
 * close opened soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param mFragment context
 */
public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Fragment mFragment) {
    try {
        if (mFragment == null || mFragment.getActivity() == null) {
            return;
        }
        View view = mFragment.getActivity().getCurrentFocus();
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) mFragment.getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

Toggle Keyboard:

/**
 * toggle soft keyboard.
 *
 * @param context
 */
public static void toggleSoftKeyboard(Context context) {
    try {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

In Kotlin

fun hideKeyboard(activity: BaseActivity) {
        val view = activity.currentFocus?: View(activity)
        val imm = activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
    }

When you want to hide keyboard manually on the action of button click:

/**
 * Hides the already popped up keyboard from the screen.
 *
 */
public void hideKeyboard() {
    try {
        // use application level context to avoid unnecessary leaks.
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        assert inputManager != null;
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

When you want to hide keyboard where ever you click on screen except edittext Override this method in your activity:

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    View view = getCurrentFocus();
    if (view != null && (ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP || ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) && view instanceof EditText && !view.getClass().getName().startsWith("android.webkit.")) {
        int scrcoords[] = new int[2];
        view.getLocationOnScreen(scrcoords);
        float x = ev.getRawX() + view.getLeft() - scrcoords[0];
        float y = ev.getRawY() + view.getTop() - scrcoords[1];
        if (x < view.getLeft() || x > view.getRight() || y < view.getTop() || y > view.getBottom())
            ((InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).hideSoftInputFromWindow((this.getWindow().getDecorView().getApplicationWindowToken()), 0);
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

Here are both hide & show methods. ##Kotlin

fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
    val v = activity.currentFocus
    val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    assert(v != null)
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v!!.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
}

private fun showKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
    val v = activity.currentFocus
    val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    assert(v != null)
    imm.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}

##Java

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    View v = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    assert imm != null && v != null;
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}

private static void showKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    View v = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    assert imm != null && v != null;
    imm.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}

Call this method to hide the soft keyboard

public void hideKeyBoard() {
    View view1 = this.getCurrentFocus();
    if(view!= null){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view1.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

Just Add following line in AndroidManifest in specific activity.

<activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"/>

KOTLIN SOLUTION IN A FRAGMENT:

fun hideSoftKeyboard() {
        val view = activity?.currentFocus
        view?.let { v ->
            val imm =
                activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager // or context
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.windowToken, 0)
        }
}

Check your manifest doesn't have this parameter associated with your activity:

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"

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

Try This one

public void disableSoftKeyboard(final EditText v) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {
        v.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT);
        v.setTextIsSelectable(true);
    } else {
        v.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
        v.setFocusable(true);
    }
}

simply code : use this code in onCreate()

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

simple method guys: try this...

private void closeKeyboard(boolean b) {

        View view = this.getCurrentFocus();

        if(b) {
            if (view != null) {
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
        else {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.showSoftInput(view, 0);
        }
    }

final RelativeLayout llLogin = (RelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.rl_main);
        llLogin.setOnTouchListener(
                new View.OnTouchListener() {
                    @Override
                    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent ev) {
                        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) this.getSystemService(
                                Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
                        return false;
                    }
                });

Here are the best solutions

Solution 1) Set the inputType to “text”

<EditText
android:id="@+id/my_edit_text"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:hint="Tap here to type"
android:inputType="text" />

This can also be done programmatically via. the method setInputType() (inherited from TextView).

EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.my_edit_text);
editText.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | 
InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_NORMAL);

Solution 2) Use the InputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow()

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

or

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) 
getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 
InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

Very simple way

I do this in all my projects, and work like a dream. In your declarations layout.xml just add this single line:

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"

Full code example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true">

    <EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

    <ListView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">

    </ListView>

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

When moving from fragment to fragment

fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity?): Boolean {
    val inputManager = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager?
    if (inputManager != null) {
        val currentFocus = activity?.currentFocus
        if (currentFocus != null) {
            val windowToken = currentFocus.windowToken
            if (windowToken != null) {
                return inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
            }
        }
    }
    return false
}

fun showKeyboard(editText: EditText) {
    val imm = editText.context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.windowToken, 0)
    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0)
    editText.requestFocus()
}

This worked for me.

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity act, EditText et){
    Context c = act.getBaseContext();
	View v = et.findFocus();
	if(v == null)
		return;
	InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) c.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}

you can simply add this code where you want to hide the soft keyboard"

                        // Check if no view has focus:
                            View view = getCurrentFocus();
                            if (view != null) {
                                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
                            }

In Android to hide the Vkeyboard by InputMethodManage you can cal hideSoftInputFromWindow by passing in the token of the window containing your focused view.

View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
InputMethodManager im = 
(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
im.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

By Calling editText.clearFocus() and then InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY even works

If your application is targeting API Level 21 or more than there is a default method to use:

editTextObj.setShowSoftInputOnFocus(false);

Make sure you have set below code in EditText XML tag.

<EditText  
    ....
    android:enabled="true"
    android:focusable="true" />

Below code will help you to make generic function that can be call from anywhere.

import android.app.Activity
import android.content.Context
import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar
import android.view.View
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager

public class KeyboardHider {
    companion object {
        
        fun hideKeyboard(view: View, context: Context) {
            val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
        }

    }

}

Call Above method from anywhere using one single line of code.

CustomSnackbar.hideKeyboard(view, this@ActivityName)

view could be anything for example root layout of an activity.

just make common method for whole application in BaseActivity and BaseFragment

in onCreate() initialize inputMethodManager

inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

make this methods to hide & show keyboard

public void hideKeyBoard(View view) {
     if (view != null) {
         inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
      }
 }
    
public void showKeyboard(View view, boolean isForceToShow) {
      if (isForceToShow)
         inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
      else if (view != null)
           inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, 0);
}

I use Kotlin extensions for showing and hiding the Keyboard.

fun View.showKeyboard() {
  this.requestFocus()
  val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
  inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(this, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}

fun View.hideKeyboard() {
  val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
  inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
}

By Adding the Generic method to your Utility or Helper class. By just calling itself you can hide and show keyboard

fun AppCompatActivity.hideKeyboard() {
            val view = this.currentFocus
            if (view != null) {
                val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
            }
           window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)
         
        }


 fun AppCompatActivity.showKeyboard() {
            val view = this.currentFocus
            if (view != null) {
                val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
            }                     window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)
        
        }

This method works if you need to hide the keyboard in a fragment.

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Context context, View view) {
    if (context != null && view != null) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

For the view, just pass in the

getView() method

In Kotlin Just use these two methods to Show and Hide the keyboard.

fun showKeyboard() =
    (context.getSystemService(AppCompatActivity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager)!!
        .toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0)

fun hideKeyboard(view: View) =
    (context.getSystemService(AppCompatActivity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager)!!
        .hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)

here view is your current view,

This code will help you to hide keyboard when you touch outside the edittext or anywhere else. You need to add this code in your activity or you can write in parent activity of your project and it will also hide your keyboard in webview.

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    View v = getCurrentFocus();

    if (v != null && (ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP || ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) && v instanceof EditText &&
            !v.getClass().getName().startsWith("android.webkit.")) {
        int[] sourceCoordinates = new int[2];
        v.getLocationOnScreen(sourceCoordinates);
        float x = ev.getRawX() + v.getLeft() - sourceCoordinates[0];
        float y = ev.getRawY() + v.getTop() - sourceCoordinates[1];

        if (x < v.getLeft() || x > v.getRight() || y < v.getTop() || y > v.getBottom()) {
            hideKeyboard(this);
        }

    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

private void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    if (activity != null && activity.getWindow() != null) {
        activity.getWindow().getDecorView();
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (imm != null) {
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }
}

public static void hideKeyboard(View view) {
        if (view != null) {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) view.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            if (imm != null)
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }

I created a layout partially from xml and partially from a custom layout engine, which is all handled in-code. The only thing that worked for me was to keep track of whether or not the keyboard was open, and use the keyboard toggle method as follows:

public class MyActivity extends Activity
{
    /** This maintains true if the keyboard is open. Otherwise, it is false. */
    private boolean isKeyboardOpen = false;

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
    {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        LayoutInflater inflater;
        inflater = (LayoutInflater) getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        View contentView = inflater.inflate(context.getResources().getIdentifier("main", "layout", getPackageName()), null);
        
        setContentView(contentView);
        contentView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() 
        {
            public void onGlobalLayout() 
            {
                Rect r = new Rect();
                contentView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);
                int heightDiff = contentView.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
                if (heightDiff > 100) 
                    isKeyboardVisible = true;
                else
                    isKeyboardVisible = false;
             });
         }
    }

    public void closeKeyboardIfOpen()
    {
        InputMethodManager imm;
        imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (isKeyboardVisible)
            imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
    }   
}

Tried all here in desperation, combining all methods, and of course the keyboard will not close in Android 4.0.3 (it did work in Honeicomb AFAIR).

Then suddenly I found an apparently winning combination:

textField.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT |InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_NORMAL);

combined with your usual recipes

blahblaj.hideSoftInputFromWindow ...

hope this stops somebody from committing suicide .. I was close to it. Of course, I have no idea why it works.

This method will always always work at any cost. Just Use it wherever you want to hide the keyboard

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Context mContext,EditText username){
	    if(((Activity) mContext).getCurrentFocus()!=null && ((Activity) mContext).getCurrentFocus() instanceof EditText){
	        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)mContext.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
	        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(username.getWindowToken(), 0);
	    }
	}

Use it like this :

Whatever is the version of Android. This method will surely work

public static void closeInput(final View caller) {  
    caller.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) caller.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(caller.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
        }
    }, 100);
}

This method generally works, but there is one condition: you can't have android:windowSoftInputMode="any_of_these" set

An alternative using SearchView would be to use this code:

searchView = (SearchView) searchItem.getActionView();    
searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(new OnQueryTextListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
        getSystemService(getApplicationContext().INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(searchView.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

This is a SearchView search box in the ActionBar that when the text from the query is submitted (the user presses either Enter key or a search button/icon), then the InputMethodManager code gets activated and makes your soft keyboard go down. This code was put in my onCreateOptionsMenu(). searchItem is from MenuItem which is part of the default code for the onCreateOptionsmenu(). Thanks to @mckoss for a good chunk of this code!

private void hideSoftKeyboard() {
    View view = getView();
    if (view != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getActivity()
                .getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

Depite all those answers, just to be simple enough, I have written a common method to do this :

/**
 * hide soft keyboard in a activity
 * @param activity
 */
public static void hideKeyboard (Activity activity){
    activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
    if (activity.getCurrentFocus() != null) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

/** 
 *
 *   Hide I Said!!!
 *
 */
public static boolean hideSoftKeyboard(@NonNull Activity activity) {
    View currentFocus = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    if (currentFocus == null) {
        currentFocus = activity.getWindow().getDecorView();
        if (currentFocus != null) {
            return getSoftInput(activity).hideSoftInputFromWindow(currentFocus.getWindowToken(), 0, null);
        }
    }
    return false;
}

public static boolean hideSoftKeyboard(@NonNull Context context) {
   if(Activity.class.isAssignableFrom(context.getClass())){
       return hideSoftKeyboard((Activity)context);
   }
   return false;
}

public static InputMethodManager getSoftInput(@NonNull Context context) {
    return (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
}

you can create Extension function for any View

fun View.hideKeyboard() = this.let {
    val imm = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
}

Example use with Activity

window.decorView.hideKeyboard();

Example use with View

etUsername.hideKeyboard();

Happy Coding...

Wiki answer in Kotlin :

1 - Create a top-level function inside a file (for example a file that contains all your top-level functions) :

fun Activity.hideKeyboard(){
    val imm = this.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    var view = currentFocus
    if (view == null) { view = View(this) }
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
}

2 - Then call it in any activity you needed it :

this.hideKeyboard()

For the kotlin users out there here is a kotlin extension method that has worked for my use cases:

fun View.hideKeyboard() {
    val imm = this.context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
}

put it in a file called ViewExtensions (or what have you) and call it on your views just like a normal method.

there are two ways to do so...

method 1:in manifest file

define the line **android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden"** of code in your manifest.xml file as below...

<activity
            android:name="packagename.youactivityname"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden" />

Method 2 : in Activity or Java class

 if(getCurrentFocus()!=null) {
            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)`enter code here`;
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }

it will work....@ASK

First, you should add from the XML file add android:imeOptions field and change its value to actionUnspecified|actionGo as below

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
                    android:id="@+id/edit_text_id"
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="@dimen/edit_text_height"
                    android:imeOptions="actionUnspecified|actionGo"
                    />

Then In the java class add a setOnEditorActionListener and add InputMethodManager as below

enterOrderNumber.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_GO) {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

This was work for me. It is in Kotlin for hiding the keyboard.

private fun hideKeyboard() {
        val inputManager = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        val focusedView = activity?.currentFocus
        if (focusedView != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(focusedView.windowToken,
                    InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
        }
    }

An easy workaround ist to just editText.setEnabled(false);editText.setEnabled(true); in your Button onClick() method.

Kotlin

class KeyboardUtils{
    
    companion object{
        fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
            val imm: InputMethodManager = activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
            var view: View? = activity.currentFocus
            if (view == null) {
                view = View(activity)
            }
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
        }
    }
}

Then just call it wherever you need

Fragments

KeyboardUtils.hideKeyboard(requireActivity())

Activities

 KeyboardUtils.hideKeyboard(this)

This one works for me, you just need to pass the element inside it.

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

Hide soft keyboard in Kotlin by creating an extension, which you can use globally. To do this, you need to create a Singleton class.

object Extensions {
    
      fun View.hideKeyboard() {
            val inputMethodManager =                                                 
            context.getSystemService(AppCompatActivity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)           
            as InputMethodManager
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
        }
    }

In your activity of fragment class where you need to hide the keyboard, you can call this function with mainlayout id like below

//constraintEditLayout is my main view layout, if you are using other layout like relative or linear layouts you can call with that layout id
constraintEditLayout.hideKeyboard()

surround it with try catch, so that is keyboard is already closed, app would not crash :

try{

View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
}catch (Exception e)
{
  e.printStackTrace();
}

use Text watcher instead of EditText.and after you finished entering the input 

you can use

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

You only need to write one line inside your manifest activity tag

 android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden|adjustPan"

and it will work.

After reading all the answers above and in another post, I still didn't succeed in getting the keyboard to open automatically.

In my project I created a dialog (AlertDialog) dynamically (by programming it without or with minimum of needed XML).

So I was doing something like:

    dialogBuilder = new AlertDialog.Builder(activity);

    if(dialogBuilder==null)
        return false; //error

    inflater      = activity.getLayoutInflater();
    dialogView    = inflater.inflate(layout, null);
    ...

And after finishing setting-up all the views (TextView, ImageView, EditText,etc..) I did:

        alertDialog = dialogBuilder.create();

        alertDialog.show();

After playing around with all the answers I found out that most of them work IF you know WHERE to put the request... And that was the key to all.

So, the trick is to put it BEFORE the creation of the dialog: alertDialog.show() in my case, this worked like charm:

        alertDialog = dialogBuilder.create();           
        alertDialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);

        //And only when everything is finished - let's bring up the window - 
        alertDialog.show();

        //Viola... keyboard is waiting for you open and ready...
        //Just don't forget to request focus for the needed view (i.e. EditText..)

I'm quite sure this principle is the same with all windows, so pay attention to the location of your "showKeyboard" code - it should be before the window is launched.

A small request from the Android SDK dev team:

I think that all this is unnecessary as you can see thousands of programmers from all over the world are dealing with this ridiculous and trivial problem, while its solution should be clean and simple: IMHO if I get requestFocus() to an input-oriented view (such as EditText), the keyboard should open automatically, unless the user asks not-to, so, I think the requestFocus() method is the key here and should accept boolean showSoftKeyboard with default value of true: View.requestFocus(boolean showSoftKeyboard);

Hope this will help others like me.

Kotlin version

val imm: InputMethodManager = getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
//Hide:
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
//Show
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0);

Some kotlin code:

Hide keyboard from Activity:

(currentFocus ?: View(this))
            .apply { (getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager)
                        .hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0) }