How to hide soft keyboard on android after clicking outside EditText?

Question

Ok everyone knows that to hide a keyboard you need to implement:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
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Answer 1

You can achieve this by doing the following steps:

1. Make the parent view(content view of your activity) clickable and focusable by adding the following attributes

       android:clickable="true" 
       android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 
   

2. Implement a hideKeyboard() method

       public void hideKeyboard(View view) {
           InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
           inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
       }
   

3. Lastly, set the onFocusChangeListener of your edittext.

       edittext.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
           @Override
           public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
               if (!hasFocus) {
                   hideKeyboard(v);
               }
           }
       });
   

As pointed out in one of the comments below, this might not work if the parent view is a ScrollView. For such case, the clickable and focusableInTouchMode may be added on the view directly under the ScrollView.