How do you close/hide the Android soft keyboard programmatically?

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)
}

4 years ago

One of the easiest methods for closing the Android soft keyboard programmatically is to just call the hide keyboard from Your Activity. this to hide the keyboard. The code is as follows:

public static void hideKeyboardFrom(Activity activity) {

    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);

}

For Open keyboard, the code is as follows:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

imm.showSoftInput(edtView, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

For Close keyboard, the code is as follows:

 InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

 imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(edtView.getWindowToken(), 0);

4 years ago