How to clear focus and remove keyboard on Android?

Question

I have a EditText control. If I tap it the softkeyboard will popup however when I press "enter/ok/return" then the EditText control it still has focus and the keyboard up.
How do I close the softkeyboard and remove focus from it?

score 20 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '11 at 10:02

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InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editTextField.getWindowToken(), 0);

answered May 23 '11 at 10:02

Mitul Nakum

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This will only hide the keyboard. It will not remove focus. – lostintranslation Jan 31 '17 at 17:20

score 13 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 21 '10 at 07:37

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In the layout XML file, specify an imeOption on your EditText:

android:imeOptions="actionGo"

Next, add an action listener to your EditText in the Activity's java file

    mYourEditText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_GO) {
                // hide virtual keyboard
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mYourEditText.getWindowToken(), 0);
                return true;
            }
            return false;
        }
    });

Where mYourEditText is an EditText object

answered Nov 21 '10 at 07:37

Andrew

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Hmm thank you. but im a suposed to write the imeOpt in the layout or the edittext? and i got error on EditorInfo, any idea? – carefacerz Nov 22 '10 at 16:11
Can you explain the EditorInfo? – carefacerz Nov 22 '10 at 18:54
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This will dismiss the keyboard but will not remove focus in all cases. IE android will request focus on the first available view that can focus. – lostintranslation Jan 31 '17 at 17:20

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 16 '17 at 11:12

Make sure your EditText XML has :

android:id="@+id/myEditText"    
android:imeOptions="actionDone"

Then set listener to your EditText (with Kotlin, and from a fragment):

myEditText.setOnEditorActionListener({ v, actionId, event ->
            if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE) {
                myEditText.clearFocus()
                val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view!!.windowToken, 0)    
            }
            false
        })

score 2 · Answer 4 · edited Sep 26 '14 at 16:31

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private void hideDefaultKeyboard() {
    activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);
   //you have got lot of methods here
}

edited Sep 26 '14 at 16:31

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answered Sep 26 '14 at 13:40

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 20 '10 at 22:27

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You could try doing SetFocus() on another element in your layout.

If you are talking about the "enter/ok/return" button on the keyboard itself you may have to set up a KeyListener on the EditText control in order to know when to SetFocus() on another element.

answered Nov 20 '10 at 22:27

knpwrs

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I understand that this is the solution given by many people, but I don't like it, because instead of input.clearFocus() simply working (i.e. clearing the focus from that input), you now have to set the focus to something else!? It just seems counter-intuitive. – marienke Apr 12 '17 at 13:45

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Jan 09 '22 at 04:00

You must catch the action en OnEditorActionListener

If you are in an Activity use:

editText.setOnEditorActionListener((viewAux, actionId, eventKey) -> {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE){
            //Remove focus
            editText.clearFocus();
            //Hide the keyboard
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    });

If you are in a Fragment add requireContext

editText.setOnEditorActionListener((viewAux, actionId, eventKey) -> {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE){
            editText.clearFocus();
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)requireContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    });

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 23 '20 at 08:35

A Kotlin solution that works for me, removes all active focus and close the soft keyboard. Set android:focusableInTouchMode="true" on your parent layout. In my case I have a ScrollView as well. I am setting view.clearFocus() in its touch event listener. This will clear all the focus on any touched textview. Then I proceed to close the soft keyboard on screen.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto" xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    ...
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" //<--- this is important

    tools:context=".SomFragment">

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/scroll_view_container"
        ...
        >


        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/sone_text_1"
            ...
             />

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/sone_text_2"
            ...
             />

Then in your class

scroll_view_container.setOnTouchListener { v, event ->
        view.clearFocus()
        hideSoftKeyboard()
        true
    }

private fun hideSoftKeyboard() {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    windowToken?.let{
        val imm = requireContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(it, 0)
    }
}

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