How to hide the soft keyboard on EditText

Question

I want to hide soft keyboard on EditText even on 'click' also. I mean to say there should not be visible soft keyboard in my activity, because I am having own keyboard to enter data. Please help me... Thanks...

Answer 1

 editText_input_field.setOnTouchListener(otl);

 private OnTouchListener otl = new OnTouchListener() {
 public boolean onTouch (View v, MotionEvent event) {
        return true; // the listener has consumed the event
}
};

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