Close/hide the Android Soft Keyboard in android

You can force Android to hide the virtual keyboard using the InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow, passing in the token of the window containing your edit field.

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

This will force the keyboard to be hidden in all situations. In some cases you will want to pass in InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY as the second parameter to ensure you only hide the keyboard when the user didn't explicitly force it to appear (by holding down menu).

or 

Also useful for hiding the soft keyboard is:

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

This can be used to suppress the keyboard until the user actually touches the edittext view.


Or

Meier's solution works for me too. In my case the top level of my App is a tabHost and I want to hide the keyword when switching tabs - I get the window token from the tabHost View.

   tabHost.setOnTabChangedListener(new OnTabChangeListener()
        {
        public void onTabChanged(String tabId)
            {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) 

            getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(tabHost.getApplication

WindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }

Official documentation:- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.html


Sources:- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/close-hide-the-android-soft-keyboard