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

As an supplementary to the accepted answer.

If the accepted answer is not working for you, you can add the hideSoftKeyboard() method to the onClick() method of the onClickListener of your EditText. For example:

editText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        hideSoftKeyboard();
    }
});

(place the above code in onResume() or somewhere else)

ps. the definition of hideSoftKeyboard()

private void hideSoftKeyboard(){
    if(getCurrentFocus()!=null && getCurrentFocus() instanceof EditText){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

Answer 2

Had to edit this one to get it to work. Added a check to see if the focused view is a EditText.

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {

    View v = getCurrentFocus();
    boolean ret = super.dispatchTouchEvent(event);

    if (v instanceof EditText) {
        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()) ) { 

            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }
return ret;
}

Could probably be done in a smoother way but it works really well.

Answer 3

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]

Answer 4

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<View> 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.

Answer 5

This can be done using following code :

1) Take a reference of your parent layout into java code by using findViewById().

2) then apply setOnTouchListener() to it.

3) Add following code in onTouchMethod().

 lin = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.lin);
    lin.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() 
    {
        @Override
        public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) 
        {
               InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                               imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
                       return false;
        }
    });

Answer 6

To forcibly hide the keyboard you would use the following code... I put it in a method called 'hideSoftKeyboard()'. As mentioned by Falmarri, the softkeyboard should hide itself when you click out of it. However, if you call this method in an 'onClick()' of another item, it will forcibly close the keyboard.

private void hideSoftKeyboard(){
    if(getCurrentFocus()!=null && getCurrentFocus() instanceof EditText){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(yourEditTextHere.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}