How to hide Android soft keyboard on EditText

Question

I have an Activity with some EditText fields and some buttons as a convenience for what normally would be used to populate those fields. However when we the user touches on

Answer 1

I sometimes use a bit of a trick to do just that. I put an invisible focus holder somewhere on the top of the layout. It would be e.g. like this

with this style

and then in onResume I would call

    editInvisibleFocusHolder.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL);
    editInvisibleFocusHolder.requestFocus();

That works nicely for me from 1.6 up to 4.x