To help clarify this madness, I'd like to begin by apologizing on behalf of all Android users for Google's downright ridiculous treatment of the soft keyboard. The reason there are so many answers, each different, for the same simple question is because this API, like many others in Android, is horribly designed. I can think of no polite way to state it.

I want to hide the keyboard. I expect to provide Android with the following statement: Keyboard.hide(). The end. Thank you very much. But Android has a problem. You must use the InputMethodManager to hide the keyboard. OK, fine, this is Android's API to the keyboard. BUT! You are required to have a Context in order to get access to the IMM. Now we have a problem. I may want to hide the keyboard from a static or utility class that has no use or need for any Context. or And FAR worse, the IMM requires that you specify what View (or even worse, what Window) you want to hide the keyboard FROM.

This is what makes hiding the keyboard so challenging. Dear Google: When I'm looking up the recipe for a cake, there is no RecipeProvider on Earth that would refuse to provide me with the recipe unless I first answer WHO the cake will be eaten by AND where it will be eaten!!

This sad story ends with the ugly truth: to hide the Android keyboard, you will be required to provide 2 forms of identification: a Context and either a View or a Window.

I have created a static utility method which can do the job VERY solidly, provided you call it from an Activity.

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    //Find the currently focused view, so we can grab the correct window token from it.
    View view = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    //If no view currently has focus, create a new one, just so we can grab a window token from it
    if (view == null) {
        view = new View(activity);
    }
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Be aware that this utility method ONLY works when called from an Activity! The above method calls getCurrentFocus of the target Activity to fetch the proper window token.

But suppose you want to hide the keyboard from an EditText hosted in a DialogFragment? You can't use the method above for that:

hideKeyboard(getActivity()); //won't work

This won't work because you'll be passing a reference to the Fragment's host Activity, which will have no focused control while the Fragment is shown! Wow! So, for hiding the keyboard from fragments, I resort to the lower-level, more common, and uglier:

public static void hideKeyboardFrom(Context context, View view) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

Below is some additional information gleaned from more time wasted chasing this solution:

About windowSoftInputMode

There's yet another point of contention to be aware of. By default, Android will automatically assign initial focus to the first EditText or focusable control in your Activity. It naturally follows that the InputMethod (typically the soft keyboard) will respond to the focus event by showing itself. The windowSoftInputMode attribute in AndroidManifest.xml, when set to stateAlwaysHidden, instructs the keyboard to ignore this automatically-assigned initial focus.

<activity
    android:name=".MyActivity"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"/>

Almost unbelievably, it appears to do nothing to prevent the keyboard from opening when you touch the control (unless focusable="false" and/or focusableInTouchMode="false" are assigned to the control). Apparently, the windowSoftInputMode setting applies only to automatic focus events, not to focus events triggered by touch events.

Therefore, stateAlwaysHidden is VERY poorly named indeed. It should perhaps be called ignoreInitialFocus instead.

Hope this helps.

UPDATE: More ways to get a window token

If there is no focused view (e.g. can happen if you just changed fragments), there are other views that will supply a useful window token.

These are alternatives for the above code if (view == null) view = new View(activity); These don't refer explicitly to your activity.

Inside a fragment class:

view = getView().getRootView().getWindowToken();

Given a fragment fragment as a parameter:

view = fragment.getView().getRootView().getWindowToken();

Starting from your content body:

view = findViewById(android.R.id.content).getRootView().getWindowToken();

UPDATE 2: Clear focus to avoid showing keyboard again if you open the app from the background

Add this line to the end of the method:

view.clearFocus();

When moving from fragment to fragment

fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity?): Boolean {
    val inputManager = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager?
    if (inputManager != null) {
        val currentFocus = activity?.currentFocus
        if (currentFocus != null) {
            val windowToken = currentFocus.windowToken
            if (windowToken != null) {
                return inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
            }
        }
    }
    return false
}

fun showKeyboard(editText: EditText) {
    val imm = editText.context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.windowToken, 0)
    imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT, 0)
    editText.requestFocus()
}

you can hide keyboard in Kotlin as well using this code snippet.

 fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity?) {
    val inputManager: InputMethodManager? = 
    activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? 
    InputMethodManager
    // check if no view has focus:
    val v = activity?.currentFocus ?: return
    inputManager?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.windowToken, 0)
 }

Just call the below method it will hide your keyboard if its showing.

public void hideKeyboard() {
    try {
        InputMethodManager inputmanager = (InputMethodManager)this.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (inputmanager != null) {
            inputmanager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(this.getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    } catch (Exception var2) {
    }

}

By Adding the Generic method to your Utility or Helper class. By just calling itself you can hide and show keyboard

fun AppCompatActivity.hideKeyboard() {
            val view = this.currentFocus
            if (view != null) {
                val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
            }
           window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)

        }


 fun AppCompatActivity.showKeyboard() {
            val view = this.currentFocus
            if (view != null) {
                val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
            }                     window.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN)

        }

just add this property in your EditTect view to hide keyboard.

android:focusable="false"

For kotlin lovers. I have created two extension functions. For hideKeyboard fun, you can pass edittext's instance as a view.

fun Context.hideKeyboard(view: View) {
    (getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager)?.apply {
        hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
    }
}

fun Context.showKeyboard() {
    (getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager)?.apply {
        toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY)
    }
}

Easy way for you is to set the below attribute in your EditText View.

android:imeOptions="actionDone" 

Works in a fragment with Android 10 (API 29)

val activityView = activity?.window?.decorView?.rootView
activityView?.let {
    val imm = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager
    imm?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(it.windowToken, 0)
}

Just Add following line in AndroidManifest in specific activity.

<activity
        android:name=".MainActivity"
        android:screenOrientation="portrait"
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"/>

In Kotli, I use Kotlin extensions for showing and hiding the Keyboard.

fun View.showKeyboard() {
  this.requestFocus()
  val inputMethodManager = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
  inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(this, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}

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

Try This Force fully android soft input keyborad

create Method in Helper class.

InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if (imm != null)
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);

You can force Android to hide the virtual keyboard using the InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow, passing in the token of the window containing your focused view.

// Check if no view has focus:
View view = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (view != null) {  
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}

This will force the keyboard to be hidden in all situations. In some cases you will want to pass in InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY as the second parameter to ensure you only hide the keyboard when the user didn't explicitly force it to appear (by holding down menu).

Note: If you want to do this in Kotlin, use: context?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager

Kotlin Syntax

// Check if no view has focus:
 val view = this.currentFocus
 view?.let { v ->
  val imm = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as? InputMethodManager 
  imm?.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.windowToken, 0)
 }

An easy workaround ist to just editText.setEnabled(false);editText.setEnabled(true); in your Button onClick() method.

This was work for me. It is in Kotlin for hiding the keyboard.

private fun hideKeyboard() {
        val inputManager = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        val focusedView = activity?.currentFocus
        if (focusedView != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(focusedView.windowToken,
                    InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
        }
    }

First, you should add from the XML file add android:imeOptions field and change its value to actionUnspecified|actionGo as below

 <android.support.design.widget.TextInputEditText
                    android:id="@+id/edit_text_id"
                    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                    android:layout_height="@dimen/edit_text_height"
                    android:imeOptions="actionUnspecified|actionGo"
                    />

Then In the java class add a setOnEditorActionListener and add InputMethodManager as below

enterOrderNumber.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {

    @Override
    public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
        if (actionId == EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_GO) {
            InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }
});

This code snippet can helped:

    final InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if (inputMethodManager != null && inputMethodManager.isActive()) {
        if (getCurrentFocus() != null) {
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }

It can be called in different methods according to need (ex. onPause, onResume, onRestart ...)

just make common method for whole application in BaseActivity and BaseFragment

in onCreate() initialize inputMethodManager

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

make this methods to hide & show keyboard

public void hideKeyBoard(View view) {
     if (view != null) {
         inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
      }
 }

public void showKeyboard(View view, boolean isForceToShow) {
      if (isForceToShow)
         inputMethodManager.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);
      else if (view != null)
           inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, 0);
}

Below code will help you to make generic function that can be call from anywhere.

import android.app.Activity
import android.content.Context
import android.support.design.widget.Snackbar
import android.view.View
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager

public class KeyboardHider {
    companion object {

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

    }

}

Call Above method from anywhere using one single line of code.

CustomSnackbar.hideKeyboard(view, [email protected])

view could be anything for example root layout of an activity.

there are two ways to do so...

method 1:in manifest file

define the line **android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden"** of code in your manifest.xml file as below...

<activity
            android:name="packagename.youactivityname"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden" />

Method 2 : in Activity or Java class

 if(getCurrentFocus()!=null) {
            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)`enter code here`;
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }

it will [email protected]

Hi This is simple if you are working with Kotlin i belive you can easily convert the code to Java too first in your activity use this function when your activity is load for example in the onCreate() call it.

fun hideKeybord (){
val inputManager = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
if (inputManager.isAcceptingText){
    inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(currentFocus.windowToken, 0)
}

}

as i mentiond call this Function in your onCreate() methode then add this android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden" line to your activity in manafest.xml file Like this...

<activity
    android:name=".Activity.MainActivity"
    android:label="@string/app_name"
    android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden">

If you use Kotlin for developing your application, it's really easy to do.

Add this extensions functions:

For Activity:

fun Activity.hideKeyboard() {
    val inputManager = getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    val view = currentFocus
    if (view != null) {
        inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
    }
}

For Fragment:

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard() {
    activity?.let {
        val inputManager = it.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        val view = it.currentFocus
        if (view != null) {
            inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
        }
    }
}

Now you can simple call in your Fragment or Activity:

 hideKeyboard()

protected void hideSoftKeyboard(EditText input) {
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(input.getWindowToken(), 0);    
}

For the kotlin users out there here is a kotlin extension method that has worked for my use cases:

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

put it in a file called ViewExtensions (or what have you) and call it on your views just like a normal method.

sometimes all you want is the enter button to fold the keyboard give the EditText box you have the attribute

 android:imeOptions="actionDone" 

this will change the Enter button to a Done button that will close the keyboard.

Call this method to hide the soft keyboard

public void hideKeyBoard() {
    View view1 = this.getCurrentFocus();
    if(view!= null){
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view1.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}

I have written small extension for Kotlin if anyone interested, didn't test it much tho:

fun Fragment.hideKeyboard(context: Context = App.instance) {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    windowToken?.let {
        val imm = context.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
    }
}

App.instance is static "this" Application object stored in Application

Update: In some cases windowToken is null. I have added additional way of closing keyboard using reflection to detect if keyboard is closed

/**
 * If no window token is found, keyboard is checked using reflection to know if keyboard visibility toggle is needed
 *
 * @param useReflection - whether to use reflection in case of no window token or not
 */
fun Fragment.hideKeyboard(context: Context = MainApp.instance, useReflection: Boolean = true) {
    val windowToken = view?.rootView?.windowToken
    val imm = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    windowToken?.let {
        imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(windowToken, 0)
    } ?: run {
        if (useReflection) {
            try {
                if (getKeyboardHeight(imm) > 0) {
                    imm.toggleSoftInput(0, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
                }
            } catch (exception: Exception) {
                Timber.e(exception)
            }
        }
    }
}

fun getKeyboardHeight(imm: InputMethodManager): Int = InputMethodManager::class.java.getMethod("getInputMethodWindowVisibleHeight").invoke(imm) as Int

Wiki answer in Kotlin :

1 - Create a top-level function inside a file (for example a file that contains all your top-level functions) :

fun Activity.hideKeyboard(){
    val imm = this.getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    var view = currentFocus
    if (view == null) { view = View(this) }
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.windowToken, 0)
}

2 - Then call it in any activity you needed it :

this.hideKeyboard()

public void hideKeyboard() 
{
    if(getCurrentFocus()!=null) 
    {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
    }
}


public void showKeyboard(View mView) {
    InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    mView.requestFocus();
    inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(mView, 0);
}

Here are both hide & show methods.

Kotlin

fun hideKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
    val v = activity.currentFocus
    val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    assert(v != null)
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v!!.windowToken, InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS)
}

private fun showKeyboard(activity: Activity) {
    val v = activity.currentFocus
    val imm = activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    assert(v != null)
    imm.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
}

Java

public static void hideKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    View v = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    assert imm != null && v != null;
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
}

private static void showKeyboard(Activity activity) {
    View v = activity.getCurrentFocus();
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    assert imm != null && v != null;
    imm.showSoftInput(v, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
}