Hide soft keyboard on losing focus

Question

When we have an EditText and it loses focus (to an element that doesn\'t need a keyboard), should the soft keyboard hide automatically or are we supposed to hid

Answer 1

You can override the dispatchTouchEvent method to achieve it:

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {

    if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {

        /**
         * It gets into the above IF-BLOCK if anywhere the screen is touched.
         */

        View v = getCurrentFocus();
        if ( v instanceof EditText) {


            /**
             * Now, it gets into the above IF-BLOCK if an EditText is already in focus, and you tap somewhere else
             * to take the focus away from that particular EditText. It could have 2 cases after tapping:
             * 1. No EditText has focus
             * 2. Focus is just shifted to the other EditText
             */

            Rect outRect = new Rect();
            v.getGlobalVisibleRect(outRect);
            if (!outRect.contains((int)event.getRawX(), (int)event.getRawY())) {
                v.clearFocus();
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent( event );
}

Bonus: In case of an EditText gaining focus, the order of event triggered is:

1. onFocusChange() of another EditText is called (if that other edittext is losing focus)
2. ACTION_DOWN is called
3. Finally, onFocusChange() method of that EditText will get called.