Hide keypad in android while touching outside Edit Text Area

Question

I know that the code for dismiss tyhe keypad in android is

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hide         


        

Answer 1

This may be old but I got this working by implenting a custom class

public class DismissKeyboardListener implements OnClickListener { 

    Activity mAct;

    public DismissKeyboardListener(Activity act) {
        this.mAct = act;
    } 

    @Override 
    public void onClick(View v) {
        if ( v instanceof ViewGroup ) {
            hideSoftKeyboard( this.mAct );
        } 
    }        
} 

public void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
        getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
} 

the best practice here is to create a Helper class and every container Relative / Linear Layouts should implement this.

**** Take note only the main Container should implement this class (For optimization) ****

and implement it like this :

Parent.setOnClickListener( new DismissKeyboardListener(this) ); 

the keyword this is for Activity. so if you are on fragment you use it like getActivity();

---thumbs up if it help you... --- cheers Ralph ---