android edittext remove focus after clicking a button

One workaround is to create a fake view to transfer focus to when you clearFocus in your edittext:

<EditText android:id="@+id/edt_thief" android:layout_width="0dp" android:layout_height="0dp" android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true" 

Note that this view is invisible so it doesn't require any space in the layout.

In the control class, you can add a method like the following to trigger this focus transfer:

public void clearFocus(){ yourEdittext.clearFocus(); edtThief.requestFocus(); } 

You can then minimize the keyboard once edtThief has focus:

 public static void hideKeyboard(final View view) { InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) view.getContext() .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0); } 

I've successfully used the following in the onClick button code:

editText.setEnabled(false); editText.setEnabled(true); 

Somewhat less complex than other methods...

The most elegant solution that I could find is this:

You can save this method in your utility class:

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

By simply calling hideSoftKeyboad() method it will hide the keyboard but as you can see, the focus will still be present.

In order to remove the focus we will use a simple trick. Right above your input controls, add a dummy view like this:

<View android:id="@+id/dummy" android:layout_width="1dp" android:layout_height="1dp" android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true" /> 

Then, write this line of code at the place where you call the focus-hiding method:

 theTextView.clearFocus(); 

Since the app needs to pass the focus to the next control it will be passed to our invisible view.

How i solved it.

// xml file <LinearLayout ... android:id="@+id/linear_layout" android:focusableInTouchMode="true"> // 1. make this focusableInTouchMode... </LinearLayout> // Activity file private LinearLayout mLinearLayout; // 2. parent layout element private Button mButton; mLinearLayout = findViewById(R.id.linear_layout); mButton = findViewById(R.id.button); mButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View v) { mLinearLayout.requestFocus(); // 3. request focus } }); 

I hope this helps you :)

The top answer definitely works but would add a lot of unnecessary codes in my use case, where there are many buttons and every one of them will need a setOnClickListener code block to remove focus from the EditText.

Instead, my approach is to write a BindingAdapter to perform both focus change and the intended click action.

BindingAdapter

@BindingAdapter("onClickWithFocusChange") fun View.setOnClickWithFocusChangeListener(clickListener: View.OnClickListener?) { clickListener?.also { setOnClickListener(OnClickWithFocusChangeListener(it)) } ?: setOnClickListener(null) } class OnClickWithFocusChangeListener( private val clickListener: View.OnClickListener ) : View.OnClickListener { override fun onClick(v: View?) { v?.requestFocusFromTouch() clickListener.onClick(v) v?.clearFocus() } } 

In xml (databinding can now be used instead of programmatically setting every one of the clicklisteners):

<!-- parentview of the EditText --> <androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:focusable="true" android:focusableInTouchMode="true"> <ImageButton ... onClickWithFocusChange="@{() -> viewModel.buttonClicked()}" ... /> 

In activity/fragment:

editText.setOnFocusChangeListener { v, hasFocus -> if (!hasFocus) { requireContext().hideKeyboard(v) v.clearFocus() } } 

And lastly the extension function:

fun Context.hideKeyboard(view: View) { val inputMethodManager = getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0) } 

Hope this helps some one!

<LinearLayout android:id="@+id/parent" android:focusableInTouchMode="true" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:orientation="horizontal" > <EditText android:id="@+id/edt" android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="0.8" android:textSize="18sp" android:hint="Enter your look-up here.." /> <Button android:id="@+id/btn" android:layout_width="0dip" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_weight="0.2" android:text="Search" /> </LinearLayout> 

1. set android:focusableInTouchMode="true" to the parent layout.
2. on button click transfer the focus to parent.

 binding.btn.setOnClickListener { binding.parent.requestFocus() // your stuff here } 

private void hideDefaultKeyboard() { activity.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_HIDDEN);//u have got lot of methods here } 

EDIT:

LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN 

mTextView.setEnabled(!mTextView.isEnabled()); mTextView.setEnabled(!mTextView.isEnabled()); 

Sorry late to the answer, but I hope this will be the right answer, as I fixed it using

try { InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); if (v != null) { imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(),InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS); } } catch (Exception ignored) { } mEditText.setSelected(false); mEditText.setFocusable(false); mEditText.setFocusableInTouchMode(true); 

Write the following snippet on your button click.

From a personal experience, one may not need more than a simple clear focus to get this done, but one thing that could be tricky is when your clear focus is placed ahead of the workloads in the onClick method of your button (I experienced this for a button that has lot of checks, processes and a network call). Here is the simple workaround:

 button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { @Override public void onClick(View view) { // start of button workload, network call, etc. process ... ... ... // end of process // clear the EditText focus here editText.clearFocus(); } }); 

Why not just disable the EditText in the Button code? That should get rid of the keyboard and the focus.

edt_SearchDest.setEnabled(false);