How to dismiss keyboard in Android SearchView?

Question

I have a searchView in the ActionBar. I want to dismiss the keyboard when the user is done with input. I have the following queryTextListener on the searchView

final SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() { 
    @Override 
    public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) { 
        // Do something 
        return true; 
    } 

    @Override 
    public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {

        showProgress();
        // Do stuff, make async call

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

        return true; 
    } 
};

Based on similar questions, the following code should dismiss the keyboard, but it doesn't work in this case:

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

I've also tried:

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(searchView.getWindowToken(), 0);

Neither one works. I'm not sure if this is a Honeycomb specific problem or if it's related to the searchView in the ActionBar, or both. Has anyone gotten this working or know why it does not work?

Answer 1

I was trying to do something similar. I needed to launch the SearchActivity from another Activity and have the search term appear on the opened search field when it loaded. I tried all the approaches above but finally (similar to Ridcully's answer above) I set a variable to SearchView in onCreateOptionsMenu() and then in onQueryTextSubmit() called clearFocus() on the SearchView when the user submitted a new search:

private SearchView searchView;

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);
    searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search)
            .getActionView(); // set the reference to the searchView
    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this); 
    searchMenuItem = (MenuItem) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search); 
    searchMenuItem.expandActionView(); // expand the search action item automatically
    searchView.setQuery("<put your search term here>", false); // fill in the search term by default
    searchView.clearFocus(); // close the keyboard on load
    return true;
}

@Override
public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
    performNewSearch(query);
    searchView.clearFocus();
    return true;
}