hide default keyboard on click in android

Question

i want to hide the soft keyboard when i click out side of editbox in a screen. how can i do this?

Answer 1

I added the following to my activity. It works because touching outside a Focusable View doesn't change the focus (so w == v) but the touch will be outside the View's rectangle.

public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    View v = getCurrentFocus();
    boolean ret = super.dispatchTouchEvent(event);
    View w = getCurrentFocus();
    int scrcoords[] = new int[2];
    w.getLocationOnScreen(scrcoords);
    float x = event.getRawX() + w.getLeft() - scrcoords[0];
    float y = event.getRawY() + w.getTop() - scrcoords[1];

    Log.d("Activity", "Touch event "+event.getRawX()+","+event.getRawY()+" "+x+","+y+" rect "+w.getLeft()+","+w.getTop()+","+w.getRight()+","+w.getBottom()+" coords "+scrcoords[0]+","+scrcoords[1]);
    if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP && (x < w.getLeft() || x >= w.getRight() || y < w.getTop() || y > w.getBottom()) ) { 
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
    return ret;

}

[edit: fix minor bug]