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Hiding soft keyboard without having focus

I am using a FrameLayout to show an EditText and a ListView (with checkboxes) alternately. When showing an EditText, I would like the soft keyboard to be shown. And when showing the ListView, I would like the soft keyboard to be hidden. Now usually a focus is needed in order to hide the soft keyboard. When my ListView gets shown, then getCurrentFocus() returns null. Is there a way to hide the soft keyboard, without having a focus?
I am showing the soft keyboard like that:
public static void requestFocusAndMoveCursorToTheEndAndShowKeyboard(final EditText editTextParam, final Activity activityParam) {
if (editTextParam == null) {
return;
}
if (editTextParam.requestFocus()) {
editTextParam.setSelection(editTextParam.getText().length()); // move Cursor to the end of the EditText
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activityParam.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
}
}
And I am trying to hide the soft keyboard like that:
public static void hideSoftInputKeyboardFromWindow(Activity activityParam) {
if (activityParam == null) {
return;
}
View view = activityParam.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activityParam.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}
}

Make use of .clearFocus(); on edittext when you don't want a focus on it.

In your AndroidMenifest.xml add this:
<activity android:name="com.your.package.ActivityName"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" />

Try this:
Write following method to youractivity or to your utility class
/**
* Hide soft keypad
*
*/
public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity, View v) {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

In your hideSoftInputKeyboardFromWindow method, try:
inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
instead of
inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
Edit: ok same answer as Dorami

How do you show them alternately? Using different fragments? Or do you simply inflate different layouts? Provide more details with your complete code

Thank you for your answers. Finally I got it solved using a View.OnFocusChangeListener for the EditText, like described here:
Hide soft keyboard on losing focus

How to hide softkeyboard when it is on radioButton

I am working on an application where I am creating layout dynamically.
I'm stuck with the problem that I want to hide the keyboard when there is a RadioButton. I have 5 consecutive edit text boxes (Generated Dynamically). After that the RadioButton part starts. I Want to hide the keyboard when there are radio Buttons and show it again when edit text appears.
I tried this:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
But no luck.

if you call this method in an 'onClick()' it will forcibly close the keyboard.
private void hideSoftKeyboard(){
if(getCurrentFocus()!=null && getCurrentFocus() instanceof EditText){
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(yourEditTextHere.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
}

How to display soft-keyboard when edittext is get focused? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Android: show soft keyboard automatically when focus is on an EditText
(33 answers)
Closed 8 years ago.
In my activity there is three editText view it will randomly gets hide at some time
After entering a single text in the editText the soft-keyboard will disappears automatically
Now I want to show the soft keyboard When editText get focused
How to do this?
Thanks in advance

Through InputMethodManager you can show and hide the soft keyboard. Use toggleSoftInput() method to show soft keyboard when EditText get focus and use hideSoftInputFromWindow() to hide the keyboard when EditText lost focus as below...
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
editText.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
#Override
public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean isFocused) {
if (isFocused) {
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
} else {
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
}
}
});

Try with these code..
InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (inputMethodManager != null) {
inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
}

android softkeyboard showSoftInput vs toggleSoftInput

showSoftInput() doesn't show the keyboard for me, but toggleSoftInput() does. I saw some other post that said to disable the hard keyboard when using the emulator, but I'm not using an emulator. I'm loading my APK on an actual device with no hard keyboard. Shouldn't both methods work? Why doesn't showSoftInput() work? I would like to explicitly associate the keyboard with a specific text field.
Doesn't work:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
editText.setText("textchange"); //i see the text field update
imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED);
Works:
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getDelegate().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED,0);

It seems that the keyboard is initially displayed but hidden by something else, because the following works (but is actually a dirty work-around):
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
editText.postDelayed(new Runnable()
{
#Override
public void run()
{
editText.requestFocus();
imm.showSoftInput(editText, 0);
}
}, 100);
And when looking at logcat I suspect the cause behind this message hides the keyboard initially shown:
Hide Clipboard dialog at Starting input: finished by someone else... !

Show Keyboard + focus and also if you want to Hide the keyboard
#Override
public void onResume () {
super.onResume();
inputSearch.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
inputSearch.requestFocus();
// Show Keyboard
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSherlockActivity().getSystemService(
Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(inputSearch, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
P.S inputSearch = (EditText) getSherlockActivity().findViewById(R.id.inputSearch);
// Hide Keyboard
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSherlockActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(inputSearch.getWindowToken(), 0);

ShowSoftInput works if the imm's target view is same with the editText.
You can check this by imm.isActive(editText) or editText.isInputMethodTarget().
ToggleSoftInput is just toggling the keyboard of the current target of imm.
Target view of imm is set after the focus has been changed by editText.requestFocus(). I think some post processes exist between these two tasks since one post runnable was not enough. I tested double post and it worked for me.
editText.requestFocus();
editText.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
editText.post(new Runnable() {
#Override
public void run() {
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
if (imm != null) {
imm.showSoftInput(editText, 0);
}
}
});
}
});

The precise answer to this question why does showSoftInput doesnt work and toggleSoftInput does?
Is that the View to which you are trying to display the Keyboard doesn't have the focus. So to solve this problem and to use the method showSoftInput you will have to call the following to methods on your view:
setFocusable(true);
setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
Calling the above methods will make sure that when you click on the View retains and captures the focus.

showSoftInput() does not work when device has a hard (slide-out) keyboard
Android show softkeyboard with showSoftInput is not working?

Try this:
public void showTheKeyboard(Context context, EditText editText){
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}
If this doesn't work read the tutorial from here

public void hideKeyboard() {
myTextView.setFocusable(true);
myTextView.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myTextView.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
WORKS
public void hideKeyboard() {
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myTextView.getWindowToken(), 0);
}
DOES NOT WORK
imm is dealt with earlier as I am using a Fragment so:
Declare imm in the Fragment
private InputMethodManager imm;
Then in the fragment add:
#Override
public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
imm = (InputMethodManager)
getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
}
He says after 3 to 4 hours of research and failures !!
Thanks user_CC ! :-)
Phil

I know this post is pretty old, but for those who came for answers from this date and none of the above worked. The code below worked for me on an Activity when an Alert Dialog popped up.
InputMethodManager keyboard = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
to show keyboard:
keyboard.toggleSoftInput(editText.getPaintFlags(), 0);
to hide keyboard:
keyboard.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);

How to hide soft keyboard onStartTrackingTouch the seekbar

I have 2 edit text and a seekbar within an activity. I would like to prevent the soft keyboard from popping up when touching the seekbar even if an edit text has the focus. I also tried to force the seekbar focus but it did not work either.
I have tried to hide the soft keyboard on the three SeekBar methods (onProgressChanged, onStopTrackingTouch and onStartTrackingTouch), and also one by one but this does not work.
Is it possible and how to achieve that ?
Thx
private void hideSoftKeyboard(){
// HIDE SOFTKEYBOARD
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
}
/**
* SEEKBAR Start tracking
*/
public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
// HIDE SOFTKEYBOARD
hideSoftKeyboard();
}

Oups sorry, I found the solution after many searches.. Here is it :
private void hideSoftKeyboard() {
// HIDE SOFTKEYBOARD
//InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
// imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(mSeekBar.getWindowToken(), 0);
}