android edittext remove focus after clicking a button

Question

I have an Activity with an EditText and a Button. When the User clicks on the EditText, the keyboard is shown and he can type in some Text - fine. But when the user clicks on the Button I want the EditText to be no more in focus i.e. the keyboard hides til the user clicks again on the EditText.

What can I do to 'hide the focus' of the EditText, after the Button is clicked. Some Code I can add in the OnClick Method of the Button to do that?

EDIT:

<LinearLayout 
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="horizontal" >

    <EditText 
        android:id="@+id/edt_SearchDest"
        android:layout_width="0dip"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="0.8"
        android:textSize="18sp"
        android:hint="Enter your look-up here.." />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/btn_SearchDest"
        android:layout_width="0dip"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="0.2"
        android:text="Search" />

</LinearLayout>

Best Regards

Answer 1

Put this in your button listener:

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

inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(),InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);

EDIT

The solution above will break your app if no EditText is focused on. Modify your code like this:

add this method to you class:

public static void hideSoftKeyboard (Activity activity, View view) 
{
    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager)activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getApplicationWindowToken(), 0);
}

Then, in your button listener, call the method like this:

hideSoftKeyboard(MainActivity.this, v); // MainActivity is the name of the class and v is the View parameter used in the button listener method onClick.