How to hide keypad in android after pressing home button

Question

I am showing a list with messages and each message's row has a comment button.When i click on comment button opens a comment box with edit text and button for submitting the comment.When comment box appears on screen keypad also appears for entering text.If i pressed home button before entering text then application goes background but keypad remains on screen.This is the thing irritating me.For custom list i am using a custom adapter and code for comment box is written in that adapter.I tried using

inputmgr.hideSoftInputFromWindow(txtComments.getWindowToken(), 0);

but it is not working. So how i can hide this keypad programmatically.

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

0

Try using the code in https://stackoverflow.com/a/1109108/1904479. Hope you are not testing it in Android version 4.1.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:59

Community

1
1

answered Jul 09 '14 at 11:06

Kailas

6,486
3
41
61

I am testing it on 4.2. I can tried this but not works. – Ak10147 Jul 09 '14 at 11:14

Pr38y · Answer 2 · 2014-07-09T13:02:50.913

0

KeyEvent.KEYCODE_HOME can NOT be intercepted. You can hide the keypad inputmgr.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindow().getDecorView().getWindowToken(), 0); in onStop() method of your activity.

It does not require token from focused view editText.

edited Jul 09 '14 at 13:02

answered Jul 09 '14 at 11:10

Pr38y

1,495
13
20

@Nava2011's answer is better. For this one you can create a method in the adapter class and call it from the activity. – Pr38y Jul 09 '14 at 11:22
EditText is returning null. – Ak10147 Jul 09 '14 at 12:20
edited the answer, check now. Call it directly from `onStop()` of your activity. – Pr38y Jul 09 '14 at 13:03

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 09 '14 at 11:23

0

please use this method to hide soft keyboard.

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity context) {
        InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (inputManager != null)
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(context.getWindow().getDecorView().getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
        context.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

    }

answered Jul 09 '14 at 11:23

bhavesh kaila

756
5
25

when you press home button just call this method only i think it will work.;-) can you please update your code when you want to hide soft keyboard? – bhavesh kaila Jul 09 '14 at 11:48
I am calling this method in onPause(). – Ak10147 Jul 09 '14 at 12:00
I think you have to call this method when you press home button.then soft keyboard will hide. – bhavesh kaila Jul 09 '14 at 12:09

How to hide keypad in android after pressing home button

3 Answers3