Edittext, Clear Focus on Touch Outside

EditText, clear focus on touch outside

I tried all these solutions. edc598's was the closest to working, but touch events did not trigger on other Views contained in the layout. In case anyone needs this behavior, this is what I ended up doing:

I created an (invisible) FrameLayout called touchInterceptor as the last View in the layout so that it overlays everything (edit: you also have to use a RelativeLayout as the parent layout and give the touchInterceptor fill_parent attributes). Then I used it to intercept touches and determine if the touch was on top of the EditText or not:

FrameLayout touchInterceptor = (FrameLayout)findViewById(R.id.touchInterceptor);
touchInterceptor.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
            if (mEditText.isFocused()) {
                Rect outRect = new Rect();
                mEditText.getGlobalVisibleRect(outRect);
                if (!outRect.contains((int)event.getRawX(), (int)event.getRawY())) {
                    mEditText.clearFocus();
                    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
                    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
                }
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
});

Return false to let the touch handling fall through.

It's hacky, but it's the only thing that worked for me.

Android edit text wont lose focus when click outside the text view

Implement a touch listener for your root Layout and call

    public class SampleFragment extends Fragment {
        @Override
        public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container, 
                                    Bundle savedInstanceState) {
               View view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.frag_layout, container, false);
               view.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
                    @Override
                    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                       et.clearFocus();
                       return true;
                    }
               });
               return view;
        }

    }

how can full clear focus in editText , just like press button DONE on softkeyboard

Firstly, we can use cleareFocus method to remove the focus.

editTextView.clearFocus()

But when this method is called, as source code comment says:

When not in touch-mode, the framework will try to give focus to the first focusable View from the top after focus is cleared. Hence, if this
View is the first from the top that can take focus, then all callbacks
related to clearing focus will be invoked after which the framework will
give focus to this view.

so after you call it, the first element will stay get the focus. so we should set the touch-mode true in parent layout.

<LinearLayout
    android:focusable="true" 
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 
    android:layout_width="0px" 
    android:layout_height="0px"/>
<EditText android:id="@+id/et"
    android:layout_width="match_parent" 
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    />

Android: Force EditText to remove focus?

You can add this to onCreate and it will hide the keyboard every time the Activity starts.

You can also programmatically change the focus to another item.

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

How to clear focus for EditText?

Set in your parent layout next attributes:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
    android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >

And now, when activity starts this layout getting default focus.

Also we can remove focus from children views in runtime (e.g. after finishing child editing):

findViewById(R.id.mainLayout).requestFocus();

or

Look in the AndroidManifest.xml element.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

It always hide key board when entering the activity.

android edittext remove focus after clicking a button

Put this in your button listener:

InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 

inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

EDIT

The solution above will break your app if no EditText is focused on. Modify your code like this:

add this method to you class:

public static void hideSoftKeyboard (Activity activity, View view) 
{
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
}

Then, in your button listener, call the method like this:

hideSoftKeyboard(MainActivity.this, v); // MainActivity is the name of the class and v is the View parameter used in the button listener method onClick.

How to hide soft keyboard on android after clicking outside EditText?

The following snippet simply hides the keyboard:

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = 
        (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(
            Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if(inputMethodManager.isAcceptingText()){
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(
                activity.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),
                0
        );
    }
}

You can put this up in a utility class, or if you are defining it within an activity, avoid the activity parameter, or call hideSoftKeyboard(this).

The trickiest part is when to call it. You can write a method that iterates through every View in your activity, and check if it is an instanceof EditText if it is not register a setOnTouchListener to that component and everything will fall in place. In case you are wondering how to do that, it is in fact quite simple. Here is what you do, you write a recursive method like the following, in fact you can use this to do anything, like setup custom typefaces etc... Here is the method

public void setupUI(View view) {

    // Set up touch listener for non-text box views to hide keyboard.
    if (!(view instanceof EditText)) {
        view.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                hideSoftKeyboard(MyActivity.this);
                return false;
            }
        });
    }

    //If a layout container, iterate over children and seed recursion.
    if (view instanceof ViewGroup) {
        for (int i = 0; i < ((ViewGroup) view).getChildCount(); i++) {
            View innerView = ((ViewGroup) view).getChildAt(i);
            setupUI(innerView);
        }
    }
}

That is all, just call this method after you setContentView in your activity. In case you are wondering what parameter you would pass, it is the id of the parent container. Assign an id to your parent container like

<RelativeLayoutPanel android:id="@+id/parent"> ... </RelativeLayout>

and call setupUI(findViewById(R.id.parent)), that is all.

If you want to use this effectively, you may create an extended Activity and put this method in, and make all other activities in your application extend this activity and call its setupUI() in the onCreate() method.

Hope it helps.

If you use more than 1 activity define common id to parent layout like
<RelativeLayout android:id="@+id/main_parent"> ... </RelativeLayout>

Then extend a class from Activity and define setupUI(findViewById(R.id.main_parent)) Within its OnResume() and extend this class instead of ``Activity in your program

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Here is a Kotlin version of the above function:

@file:JvmName("KeyboardUtils")

fun Activity.hideSoftKeyboard() {
    currentFocus?.let {
        val inputMethodManager = ContextCompat.getSystemService(this, InputMethodManager::class.java)!!
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(it.windowToken, 0)
    }
}

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