How to Block Virtual Keyboard While Clicking on Edittext in Android

how to block virtual keyboard while clicking on edittext in android?

Here is a website that will give you what you need.

As a summary, it provides links to InputMethodManager and View from Android Developers. It will reference to the getWindowToken inside of View and hideSoftInputFromWindow() for InputMethodManager.

A better answer is given in the link, hope this helps.

EDIT

From the link posted above, here is an example to consume the onTouch event:

editText.setOnTouchListener(otl);

private OnTouchListener otl = new OnTouchListener() {
    public boolean onTouch (View v, MotionEvent event) {
        return true; // the listener has consumed the event
    }
};

Here is another example from the same website. This claims to work but seems like a bad idea since your EditBox is NULL it will be no longer an editor:

myEditor.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener(){
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        int inType = myEditor.getInputType(); // backup the input type
        myEditor.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL); // disable soft input
        myEditor.onTouchEvent(event); // call native handler
        myEditor.setInputType(inType); // restore input type
        return true; // consume touch event
    }
});

Hope this points you in the right direction!

How to disable the soft keyboard to show up when the user clicks on EditText?

I found a solution that works fine and is pretty easy:

Just use mEditTextQuestion1.setEnabled(false); in the inCreateView method to make the EditText not clickable. In my case then the color of the EditText changed to a brighter dark so I added android:textColor="#000"to my xml file.

How to disable virtual keyboard on EditText?

The best solution lies in the Project Manifest file (AndroidManifest.xml), add the following attribute in the activity construct

   <activity android:name=".MainActivity" 
          android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" />

Disable keyboard on EditText

Here is a website that will give you what you need

As a summary, it provides links to InputMethodManager and View from Android Developers. It will reference to the getWindowToken inside of View and hideSoftInputFromWindow() for InputMethodManager

A better answer is given in the link, hope this helps.

here is an example to consume the onTouch event:

editText_input_field.setOnTouchListener(otl);

private OnTouchListener otl = new OnTouchListener() {
  public boolean onTouch (View v, MotionEvent event) {
        return true; // the listener has consumed the event
  }
};

Here is another example from the same website. This claims to work but seems like a bad idea since your EditBox is NULL it will be no longer an editor:

MyEditor.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener(){

  @Override
  public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    int inType = MyEditor.getInputType(); // backup the input type
    MyEditor.setInputType(InputType.TYPE_NULL); // disable soft input
    MyEditor.onTouchEvent(event); // call native handler
    MyEditor.setInputType(inType); // restore input type
    return true; // consume touch even
  }
});

Hope this points you in the right direction

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.

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)
    }
}

How to disable keypad popup when on edittext?

The best solution lies in the Project Manifest file (AndroidManifest.xml), add the following attribute in the activity construct

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

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Example:

    <activity android:name=".MainActivity" 
              android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" />

Description:

• The state of the soft keyboard — whether it is hidden or visible — when the activity becomes the focus of user attention.
• The adjustment made to the activity's main window — whether it is resized smaller to make room for the soft keyboard or whether its contents pan to make the current focus visible when part of the window is covered by the soft keyboard.

Introduced in:

• API Level 3.

Link to the Docs

Note:
Values set here (other than "stateUnspecified" and "adjustUnspecified") override values set in the theme.

how to hide virtual keyboard on edittext click

Set this property in your edit text

android:focusable="false"

How to remove keypad from edit text ,but show keypad when click on edit text?

You need to set windowSoftInputMode attribute to each activity in AndroidManifest.xml file.

    <activity
        android:name="YourActivityPath"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"/>

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