Close/hide the Android Soft Keyboard with Kotlin

I'm trying to write a simple Android app in Kotlin. I have an EditText and a Button in my layout. After writing in the edit field and clicking on the Button, I want to hide the virtual keyboard.

There is a popular question Close/hide the Android Soft Keyboard about doing it in Java, but as far as I understand, there should be an alternative version for Kotlin. How should I do it?

Solution 1:

Use the following utility functions within your Activities, Fragments to hide the soft keyboard.

(*)Update for the latest Kotlin version

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard() {
    view?.let { activity?.hideKeyboard(it) }
}

fun Activity.hideKeyboard() {
    hideKeyboard(currentFocus ?: View(this))
}

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

This will close the keyboard regardless of your code either in dialog fragment and/or activity etc.

Usage in Activity/Fragment:

hideKeyboard()

Solution 2:

I think we can improve Viktor's answer a little. Based on it always being attached to a View, there will be context, and if there is context then there is InputMethodManager:

fun View.hideKeyboard() {
    val imm = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
}

In this case the context automatically means the context of the view. What do you think?

Solution 3:

Simply override this method in your activity. It will automatically works in its child fragments as well.....

In JAVA

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
    if (getCurrentFocus() != null) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev);
}

In Kotlin

override fun dispatchTouchEvent(ev: MotionEvent?): Boolean {
        if (currentFocus != null) {
            val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
            imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(currentFocus!!.windowToken, 0)
        }
        return super.dispatchTouchEvent(ev)
    }