Android Hide Soft Keyboard from EditText while not losing cursor

Question

I\'ve come about as far as this which gets me halfway there, but not quite. I have a dialer Fragment that has all the usual Buttons to enter a numb

Answer 1

This is what I did. First, in manifest inside activity

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden|adjustNothing"

Second, in onCreate if inside activity or onActivityCreated if inside fragment

editText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            hideSoftKeyboard(v);
        }
    });

Do not forget to request focus to the editText

editText.requestFocus();

Then add the hideSoftKeyboard(v) method same as the other answer.

private void hideSoftKeyboard(View v){
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

The key here is to requestFocus before clicking the EditText. If without focus, first click will make the keyboard show up(my experience). However, this is applied if you have a single EditText in an activity. With this, you still can type with custom keyboard(if any), can copy and paste, and cursor is still visible.