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

I liked the approach of calling dispatchTouchEvent made by htafoya, but:

• I didn't understand the timer part (don't know why measuring the downtime should be necessary?)
• I don't like to register/unregister all EditTexts with every view-change (could be quite a lot of viewchanges and edittexts in complex hierarchies)

So, I made this somewhat easier solution:

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(final MotionEvent ev) {
    // all touch events close the keyboard before they are processed except EditText instances.
    // if focus is an EditText we need to check, if the touchevent was inside the focus editTexts
    final View currentFocus = getCurrentFocus();
    if (!(currentFocus instanceof EditText) || !isTouchInsideView(ev, currentFocus)) {
        ((InputMethodManager) getApplicationContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE))
            .hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

/**
 * determine if the given motionevent is inside the given view.
 * 
 * @param ev
 *            the given view
 * @param currentFocus
 *            the motion event.
 * @return if the given motionevent is inside the given view
 */
private boolean isTouchInsideView(final MotionEvent ev, final View currentFocus) {
    final int[] loc = new int[2];
    currentFocus.getLocationOnScreen(loc);
    return ev.getRawX() > loc[0] && ev.getRawY() > loc[1] && ev.getRawX() < (loc[0] + currentFocus.getWidth())
        && ev.getRawY() < (loc[1] + currentFocus.getHeight());
}

There is one disadvantage:

Switching from one EditText to another EditText makes the keyboard hide and reshow - in my case it's desired that way, because it shows that you switched between two input components.