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

Simply use below method

private fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity, editText: EditText) {
    editText.clearFocus()
    (activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager).hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.windowToken, 0)
}