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

First of all thank you to Daniel, his code is really nice and I was using it for a while.

Recently I realized that I have to improve it. The problem was scrolling page. I had many EditTexts in my project and it was hiding the keyboard when you scroll the page.

I came up with a solution using onGestureListener instead of overriding dispatchTouchEvent.

public class TabActivity extends ActionBarActivity implements GestureDetector.OnGestureListener {

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        ...
        ...
        gestureScanner = new GestureDetector(TabActivity.this,this);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
        gestureScanner.onTouchEvent(ev);
        return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onSingleTapUp(MotionEvent event) {
        View v = getCurrentFocus();

        if (v instanceof EditText) {
            View w = getCurrentFocus();
            int scrcoords[] = new int[2];
            w.getLocationOnScreen(scrcoords);
            boolean hide = true;

            View view = ((ViewGroup)findViewById(android.R.id.content)).getChildAt(0);
            ArrayList editTexts = view.getFocusables(0);     // Get All EditTexts in view

            for(int i=0; i< editTexts.size(); i++){
                View editText = editTexts.get(i);
                editText.getLocationOnScreen(scrcoords);
                float x = event.getRawX();
                float y = event.getRawY();
                int viewX = scrcoords[0];
                int viewY = scrcoords[1];

                // If touch is in any of EditText, keep keyboard active, otherwise hide it.
                if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP  && ( x > viewX && x < (viewX + editText.getWidth())) && ( y > viewY && y < (viewY + editText.getHeight())) ) {
                    hide = false;
                }
            }

            if (hide) {
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onScroll(MotionEvent event, MotionEvent e2, float distanceX, float distanceY) {
        return true;
    }     
}

So, if user scrolls the page it goes to onScroll method and it does nothing. If users just touches to screen it triggers onSingleTapUp method.

I also had to change if statement of Daniel's code. Daniel was checking if the touch event is outside the EditText. Since I have many EditViews I changed the code to find if touch event is inside any of EditTexts.

It works fine with me, let me know for any kind of improvements or mistakes.