Hide Soft Keyboard Not Working

android hide soft-keyboard
stormin986 picture stormin986 · May 9, 2010 · Viewed 23.5k times · Source

I'm developing on the Droid Incredible (and have tested on a 1.5 AVD Emulator as well), and one of the tabs in my tab widget consists of a listview and a row with an EditText and a Send button (for a chat feature). I am using the following to close the soft keyboard once I click Send, but it's not working. This is identical to code I've found elsewhere that people have upvoted as correct.

See anything I'm missing?

// in Button's onClick():
EditText chatTextBox = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.chat_entry);
// Handle button click ...
chatTextBox.setText("");

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(chatTextBox.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

I also tried changing the flag to 0. No luck. Anyone know what's up??

****EDIT**** Just realized I was originally using hideSoftInputFromInputMethod() instead of hideSoftInputFromWindow(). Changing it didn't make it work though...

Answer

stormin986 picture stormin986 · May 9, 2010

Changing HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY to 0 did it (after I changed tohideSoftInputFromWindow() from of hideSoftInputFromInputMethod()).

However I'm not sure why HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY isn't working since I am not explicitly opening the keyboard with a long press on Menu.

Related questions

Programmatically Hide/Show Android Soft Keyboard

Possible Duplicate: Close/hide the Android Soft Keyboard First thing first I already saw this thread. I tried accepted methods given there..But nothing worked for me.. I have two screens in my app. First one have 2 EditText's - One …

Read More
Hide soft keyboard after dialog dismiss

I want to hide soft keyboard after AlertDialog dismiss, but it's still visible. Here is my code: alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(MyActivity.this); imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); alert.setOnDismissListener(new DialogInterface.OnDismissListener() { @Override public void onDismiss(DialogInterface …

Read More
Permanently hide Navigation Bar in an activity

Is it possible to permanently remove the Navigation Bar on an activity? I want to remove the bar with the buttons that appear at the button of the screen on a tablet, not the Action Bar. Here. I know it …

Read More