Hi! I would like a way to turn off showing the current soft keyboard for an EditText. I have a custom View that provides the soft input needed for an EditText, so on every occasion (on click, on focus change, on touch...) when by default the soft keyboard would be shown, I want it NOT to be shown.
The closest things I found are http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/2565bc51c5ff4dbb and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-android-soft-keyboard and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1109022/how-to-close-hide-the-android-soft-keyboard These however do not work for me. The solution suggested in the latter InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(myEditText.getWindowToken(), 0); for example works only after the EditText has been selected by the user and is already accepting input and so the soft keyboard is already on the screen. I want it never to appear. I can try to implicitly set all of the onFocusChangeListener, onTouchListener, onClickListener to do public void onSomeActionListener(View v) { InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); if (imm.isActive(v)) { imm.toggleSoftInput(0,0); } } However, this is really not a nice solution because 1) the soft keyboard is first called and shown so that it briefly flashes on the screen before disappearing 2) I can't by trial and error try to find all the different ways user could cause soft keyboard to be shown and override all corresponding methods Thanks for your help! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
