DialogFragment with edittext doesn't lose keyboard after dismissed

Question

I have a custom DialogFragment with a single EditText and no buttons. After the text is entered into the edittext and I press "done", the keyboard stays visible upon returning to the host activity, even though the dialog is dismissed. It changes to a numerical keyboard, because the field in the host activity it focuses on is a numerical entry only edittext - but it may also focus on an edittext field I with normal text entry (and thus remain a normal keyboard) depending on where I left the cursor after I start the dialog fragment.

I have tried everything I could find (have googled and stackoverflowed a lot).

I based the dialogfragment on this code - it is very similar.

The problem is very similar to this, and I think the causes may be similar, but I have no buttons in my DialogFragment so I can't follow that solution though I don't think it matters I can follow it closely enough.

I have tried using inputmethodmanager as suggested there and here to dismiss the keyboard, within the interface method (implemented in the host activity), and onCreateView, onEditorAction and onDismiss within the DialogFragment class. Also tried getDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN); (also using SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN) in the DialogFragment class methods. Did try mEditText.clearFocus(); too in all the DF class methods to no avail.

Can anyone help at all? Is it to do with David Chandler's code I based mine on, or something I'm doing wrong specifically. All help most appreciated.

I include my DF class below in case anyone wants to look.

public class SetText extends DialogFragment {


public interface SetTextBoxDialogListener{
    void onFinishEnteringName(String name);
}


private EditText mEditText;

//Empty constructor req'd for dialogfragment.
public SetText(){

}


//Build view
@Override
public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
        Bundle saveInstanceState) {
    View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.activity_set_the_text, container);
    mEditText =  (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.nameText);
    getDialog().setTitle("Enter Name");


    //removing these 2 lines of code has no effect
    mEditText.requestFocus();
    getDialog().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(LayoutParams.VISIBLE);


    mEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new OnEditorActionListener() {
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE==actionId){
                //return text to activity
                SetEnterNameDialogListener activity = (SetEnterNameDialogListener) getActivity();
                activity.onFinishEnteringName(mEditText.getText().toString());


                dismiss();
                return true;
            }
            //code for 2 lines below had now effect, even placed above dismiss
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);

        return false;
    }
});

return view;
}
}

You might try a solution similar to the following, but extend dimiss() instead of cancel() http://stackoverflow.com/a/23477289/1339200 — k3v, May 05 '14 at 16:28

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 13 '13 at 02:23

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in the host activity tag in the manifest where you are returning from the DialogFragment use the following

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

answered Mar 13 '13 at 02:23

stinepike

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I've already got that to prevent the keyboard appearing when I start the host activity I'm afraid. – nme32 Mar 13 '13 at 10:11

DialogFragment with edittext doesn't lose keyboard after dismissed

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