Yes, it is completely possible to show and hide the keyboard and intercept the calls to the back button. It is a little extra effort as it has been mentioned there is no direct way to do this in the API. The key is to override boolan dispatchKeyEventPreIme(KeyEvent) within a layout.
What we do is create our layout. I chose RelativeLayout since it was the base of my Activity.
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