How to hide keyboard when user clicks on textbox in webview android

Question

Can we hide android system keyboard when user focuses or clicks on html input elements inside the webview.

I have tried hiding keyboard on user touches webview:

webView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener()
{
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch (View v, MotionEvent event){
        Toast.makeText(cx,"Web View Touch",Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        v.onTouchEvent(event);
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (imm != null) {
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);

        }
            return true;
    }
})

But that doesn't work.

Is there option to hide keyboard entirely for a app?

Answer 1

You can control the softkeyboard - Handling Input Method Visibility for each activity with the manifest like so:

<activity
    android:name=".Main"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" >

<activity
    android:name=".Main"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" >

You can also control it so it flows using 'next' from one edittext to the next and then hides again with 'done' using IME options.

android:imeOptions="actionNext"
android:imeOptions="actionDone"

I also realise the problem would be with using a webview and needing to also disable any keyboard from parent layouts,as the webview is separate from the activities in the manifest, so add this to any parent layout:

android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants"

and in the webview:

android:focusable="false" 
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"

Answer 2

try this in the activity in manifest.xml..

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

it may help.