problem in hiding the keyboard when an editbox is clicked in Android app

Question

in my app i am having an edit text box. When the user clicks the edit box i want to show him a alert box at that time i dont want the keyboard to be popped up. For this my code is as follows

bd =(EditText)findViewById(R.id.dob);
bd.setHint("Birth Date");
bd.setOnClickListener(bdListener); 



private OnClickListener bdListener = new View.OnClickListener()
 {
     public void onClick(View v) 
     {
      hidesoftkeyboard();
      DOBalert();
     }
 }




private void hidesoftkeyboard()
  {
    InputMethodManager imm = InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromInputMethod(bd.getWindowToken(), 0);
  }

But still the keyboard is not hiding, where i am going wrong please help me friends

Possible Duplicate : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-android-soft-keyboard — Ravi Vyas, Jul 13 '11 at 09:14
I needed the same thing last week and the solution @Vinayak gave worked for me , the same is documented in the question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-android-soft-keyboard as the second top rated answer. — Ravi Vyas, Jul 13 '11 at 12:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '13 at 12:15

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try this in ur activity

    @Override
    public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
       boolean ret = super.dispatchTouchEvent(event);
       hidesoftkeyboard();          
       return ret;
    }

answered Jan 09 '13 at 12:15

Keyman Muhia

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 13 '11 at 09:07

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try adding this to your hidesoftkeyboard() method:

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);

Or

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);

answered Jul 13 '11 at 09:07

Vinayak Bevinakatti

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this is not working for me and fr my urgency i changed the edit text to text view – Siva K Jul 13 '11 at 11:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 20 '11 at 14:45

 android:windowSoftInputMode=[         "stateUnchanged", "stateHidden",
                                       "stateAlwaysHidden", "stateVisible",
                                       "stateAlwaysVisible",
                                       "adjustResize", ] >

Use some of this in your manifest, this will hide the automatic keyboard pop up. However, if you are using your EditText for some input at time you'll need the keyboard. :)

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 20 '11 at 14:40

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the above said answers is not working for me and at last i changed the edit boxes to be a text view.

answered Jul 20 '11 at 14:40

Siva K

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problem in hiding the keyboard when an editbox is clicked in Android app

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