You can force Android to hide the virtual keyboard using the InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow
, passing in the token of the window containing your focused view.
// Check if no view has focus:
View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
This will force the keyboard to be hidden in all situations. In some cases, you will want to pass in InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY
as the second parameter to ensure you only hide the keyboard when the user didn't explicitly force it to appear (by holding down the menu).
Note: If you want to do this in Kotlin, use:
context?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
Kotlin Syntax
// Only runs if there is a view that is currently focused
this.currentFocus?.let { view ->
val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager
imm?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
}
Excellent answers from Luc and Mark. However, a good code sample is missing. Adding the tags android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
and android:focusable="true"
to the parent layout (e.g. LinearLayout
or ConstraintLayout
) like in the following example, will fix the problem.
<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"/>
<!-- :nextFocusUp and :nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component
to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -->
<AutoCompleteTextView android:id="@+id/autotext"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:nextFocusUp="@id/autotext"
android:nextFocusLeft="@id/autotext"/>
Best Answer
Java 7 is not officially supported by the Android SDK at this time. Please use the latest version of the Java 6 JDK.
UPDATE: Java 7 is now supported.