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

Well I manage to somewhat solve the problem, I overrode the dispatchTouchEvent on my activity, there I am using the following to hide the keyboard.

 /**
 * Called to process touch screen events. 
 */
@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {

    switch (ev.getAction()){
        case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
            touchDownTime = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime();
            break;

        case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
            //to avoid drag events
            if (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - touchDownTime <= 150){  

                EditText[] textFields = this.getFields();
                if(textFields != null && textFields.length > 0){

                    boolean clickIsOutsideEditTexts = true;

                    for(EditText field : textFields){
                        if(isPointInsideView(ev.getRawX(), ev.getRawY(), field)){
                            clickIsOutsideEditTexts = false;
                            break;
                        }
                    }

                    if(clickIsOutsideEditTexts){
                        this.hideSoftKeyboard();
                    }               
                } else {
                    this.hideSoftKeyboard();
                }
            }
            break;
    }

    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

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EDIT: The getFields() method is just a method that returns an array with the textfields in the view. To avoid creating this array on every touch, I created an static array called sFields, which is returned at the getFields() method. This array is initialized on the onStart() methods such as:

sFields = new EditText[] {mUserField, mPasswordField};

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It is not perfect, The drag event time is only based on heuristics so sometimes it doesnt hide when performing long clics, and I also finished by creating a method to get all the editTexts per view; else the keyboard would hide and show when clicking other EditText.

Still, cleaner and shorter solutions are welcome