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Hide the keyboard after clicking on the EditText

I'm using Date and Time Picker to handle the meeting date field, so there is no need for the keyboard. How can I prevent the keyboard from showing after clicking on the field?enter image description here

There is a better way of programatically hiding the keyboard.
Go in xml and add the following attribute android:focusable="false"
E.g
<EditText
android:id="#+id/time_date_et"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:fontFamily="#font/prompt_light"
android:focusable="false"
android:textSize="17sp" />
The above attribute ensures that the keyboard won't appear!

You can use property android:focusableInTouchMode="false" in xml
<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
android:id="#+id/editText"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:focusableInTouchMode="false"
android:inputType="text|date"/>
And add click listener to this view in code
editText.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
//show date picker
}
});

val activity: Activity = this //if you are in the Activity
val imm = activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
var view = activity.currentFocus
if (view == null) {
view = View(activity)
}
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
this piece of code should hide your virtual keyboard. Just put it in a method and call. :)

Change keyboard's text pad with number pad

I have EditText and input type is textNoSuggestions.
<android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginLeft="16dp"
android:layout_marginRight="16dp"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/firstName"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="Name"
android:inputType="textNoSuggestions" />
</android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout>
Also i have one button and in button onclick method i try to change keyboard's input type.This is a source
final Button changeKeyboard = (Button) dialog.findViewById(R.id.change_keyboard);
changeKeyboard.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View view) {
firsName.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
}
});
Is it a possible to change keyboards' input type in button click when keyboard is showing?
How i can solve my problem thanks everyone

set is setTransformationMethod(), not setInputType(). So something like:
firstName.setTransformationMethod(numberTransformationMethod.getInstance());

On your code, change:
firsName.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
to this (firstName with "t", the name on your xml):
firstName.setRawInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
Also, you positively can change your keyboard calling setInputType, like this: firstName.setInputType(x), where x is an int and can be 1 (alfanumeric); 2 (numeric) or 3 (phone like).
EDIT:
You can hide your keyboard calling this on your activity:
public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
//Find the currently focused view, so we can grab the correct window token from it.
View view = activity.getCurrentFocus();
//If no view currently has focus, create a new one, just so we can grab a window token from it
if (view == null) {
view = new View(activity);
}
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

firsName.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);

Setting onClickListener to editText

Hi im trying to add on click listener to editText so i can disable the softkeyboard when user clicks on edittext using this code below, how to do that?
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(edittext.getWindowToken(), 0);

First it needs to be focusable...
<EditText
...
android:inputType="none"
android:focusable="false"
... />
You have to implement it in your code and than just add this to get an click listener...
myEditText.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
#Override
public void onClick(View v) {
// hide the keyboard
// show own keyboard or buttons
}
});

try it and set OnClickListener
<androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatEditText
android:id="#+id/edt"
android:inputType="none"
android:focusable="false"
android:editable="false"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

The easiest and straight forward way you can set it is by editing the xml file as follows:
android:onClick="onClickMyEditText"
and define the same method in Activity class:
public void onClickMyEditText(View view) {
//your code here
}

Soft Keyboard doesn't show on focus

I have a small function to open the soft keyboard when a EditText is programmatically focused as shown here...
public void getUserName() {
EditText tv = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.user_info_name);
tv.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean b) {
if (b) {
showDialog("Focused!");
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
}
}
});
tv.selectAll();
tv.requestFocus();
}
However, the soft keyboard doesn't appear automatically but the dialog DOES show stating focused. In order to get the keyboard to appear I have to click inside the EditText.
My XML is as follows...
<EditText
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:ems="10"
android:id="#id/user_info_name"
android:editable="true"
android:hint="#string/user_info_name"
android:inputType="textCapWords|textPersonName"
android:textColor="#color/blue_gray"
android:maxLength="50"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:enabled="true"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />
Can someone please advise why it's not working or what I am missing / failing to address.
Thanks in advance as always.
SOLVED: The following change to the function fixed the issue...
public void getUserName() {
EditText tv = (EditText)findViewById(R.id.user_info_name);
tv.selectAll();
tv.requestFocus();
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(this.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(tv,InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}

Trying to get Android keyboard to popup on activity startup

I want the Android Keyboard to pop-up on the startup of my activity. A simple google search shows that you just have to requestFocus which I do in my .xml, but it still doesn't pop up. Am I making any minor mistake that is causing this not to work?
Testing on:
Physical 4.1
Emulator 2.2
layout.xml:
<EditText
android:id="#+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="To:"
android:inputType="textPersonName" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>

This works:
myEditText.setOnFocusChangeListener( new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
if (hasFocus) {
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
}
}
});

Try this code:
EditText input = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputManager.showSoftInput(input, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);