How to close/hide the Android Soft Keyboard?

You can force Android to hide the virtual keyboard using the InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow, passing in the token of the window containing your edit field. InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context. INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.

DeSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.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 menu).

2 Perfect, just what I was looking for. – PHP_Jedi Jul 10 '09 at 12:43 2 Thanks this seems to work great if using 0 as the second parameter. But if I use InputMethodManager.

HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY the keyboard is never hidden (although i'm not holding down menu). Any hints? – Roflcoptr Jun 23 '10 at 22:50 1 Cool.

Just to clarify, this only dismisses it if present, but won't prevent it from popping up, right? – Cheezmeister Feb 16 at 19:48 @Roflcoptr - hideImplicitOnly is only when the keyboard automatically opens when an editText gets focus. In your situation, you may be pressing on the editText, indicating that you want to type in it, which is an explicit action.

– timberwo7ves Apr 16 at 17:52 1 Of course you will need to set this back. Please verify how to undo this change. – Androider May 23 at 13:36.

Also useful for hiding the soft keyboard is: getWindow(). SetSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams. SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); This can be used to suppress the keyboard until the user actually touched the edittext view.

6 This totally worked for me! – DroidIn. Net Oct 11 '10 at 20:54 This worked for me and the one by RetoMeier didn't.

– HRJ Apr 26 at 14:17 this worked for me :) – Mayu Mayooresan Aug 1 at 13:12 can I disable the dictionary in the soft keyboard programmatically? – Arindam Mukherjee Aug 29 at 10:26.

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

SetOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener() { public void onTabChanged(String tabId) { InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context. INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm. DeSoftInputFromWindow(tabHost.

GetApplicationWindowToken(), 0); } }.

Please try this below code in oncreate() EditText edtView=(EditText)findViewById(R.id. EditTextConvertValue); edtView. SetInputType(0).

2 This method works as a means of getting around the "can't hide the soft keyboard" bug in 2.0 and 2.1 as described in code.google. Com/p/android/issues/detail? Id=7115 ... the hideSoftInputFromWindow method listed above did not work when I tried it, but editView.

SetInputType(0) did. – Spike Williams Apr 17 '10 at 5:50 5 This is legit per Javadoc (not a hack) though I would rewrite the method as editView. SetInputType(InputType.

TYPE_NULL); – DroidIn. Net Oct 11 '10 at 20:49 2 If I use this for a password field, the field becomes a normal input (not replacing entered text by dots anymore) – Alex May 25 at 15:40.

Simplest way: //Show soft-keyboard: getWindow(). SetSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams. SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE); //hide keyboard : getWindow().

SetSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams. SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN).

You must use the following code to hide the soft keyboard : InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) Context. GetSystemService(Context. INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); inputManager.

DeSoftInputFromWindow(this.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager. HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS).

For force show and hide we need to use android-codes-examples.blogspot.com/2011... as shown on this blog.

Suppose you have edit textbox with id edsearch and button with id btnsearch btnsearch. SetOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub imm. DeSoftInputFromWindow(edSearch.getWindowToken(), 0); imgCancel.

SetVisibility(View. GONE); edSearch. SetText(""); } }).

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