Hide Soft Keyboard from anywhere

Question

Hiding the soft keyboard is pain.
I use some methods based on having an EditText which gets focus, but in my current app the keyboard keeps popping up at some point where a new fragment is loaded.

I have a method in my helper class, but it does not work for me:

 //Hide keyboard

    public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {

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

    }

What I would love is a helper method, I could call from anywhere to hide the soft keyboard. Is this possible, or do I always need the find the EditText which is focused?

Answer 1

Do something like this pass any edittext id of that activity..it will work for that activty

public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity, EditText editText) {
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(
                Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }

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