android-input-method

Disabling the fullscreen editing view for soft keyboard input in landscape?

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On Android devices that use soft keyboards, I want to prevent the fullscreen keyboard editing view (shown below) from appearing when in landscape mode (i.e. I want to see only the soft keyboard itself and my view behind it). I assume this can be achieved using the setExtractViewShown(false) method on InputMethodService, but I am unable … Read more

How do you close/hide the Android soft keyboard programmatically?

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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 when touching outside the keyboard. I assume that this is a simple piece of code, but where can I find an example of it? 12 125