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

This may be old but I got this working by implenting a custom class

public class DismissKeyboardListener implements OnClickListener {

    Activity mAct;

    public DismissKeyboardListener(Activity act) {
        this.mAct = act;
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        if ( v instanceof ViewGroup ) {
            hideSoftKeyboard( this.mAct );
        }
    }       
}

public void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)
        getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
}

the best practice here is to create a Helper class and every container Relative / Linear Layouts should implement this.

**** Take note only the main Container should implement this class (For optimization) ****

and implement it like this :

Parent.setOnClickListener( new DismissKeyboardListener(this) ); 

the keyword this is for Activity. so if you are on fragment you use like getActivity();

---thumbs up if it help you... --- cheers Ralph ---