Hide keyboard after actionbar search

Question

In my application I have an actionbar activity that holds multiple fragments. In the activity when I do search the results are shown in a new fragment. I have tried hiding the keyboard after I click the submit button without any luck. Here is my code

    public class SymptomNavigator extends ActionBarActivity implements
        MainBodyArea.Communicator, SearchResult.communicator, OnClickListener {
    SearchView searchView;
    FragmentManager manager;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.symptom_navigator);

        Button generateButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_Generate);
        generateButton.setOnClickListener(this);

        Button symptomListButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn_ViewList);
        symptomListButton.setOnClickListener(this);

        if (findViewById(R.id.fragment_container) != null) {

            if (savedInstanceState != null) {
                return;
            }

            MainBodyArea firstFragment = new MainBodyArea();

            firstFragment.setArguments(getIntent().getExtras());

            getSupportFragmentManager().beginTransaction()
                    .add(R.id.fragment_container, firstFragment).commit();
        }
        manager = getSupportFragmentManager();
        mainFrag = (MainBodyArea) manager
                .findFragmentById(R.id.mainBodyFragment);

    }

    @Override
    public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
        inflater.inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
        MenuItem searchItem = menu.findItem(R.id.action_search);
        searchView = (SearchView) MenuItemCompat
                .getActionView(searchItem);
        final SearchView.OnQueryTextListener queryTextListener = new SearchView.OnQueryTextListener() {
            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextChange(String newText) {

                return true;
            }

            @Override
            public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {
                query.trim();
                searchView.clearFocus();
                if (FormValidator.isValidEntry(query)) {
                    respondToSearch(query);

                }
                return true;
            }
        };
        searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(queryTextListener);
        return true;

    }



    @Override
    public void respondToSearch(String value) {
        SearchResult newFragment = new SearchResult();
        Bundle args = new Bundle();
        args.putString(SearchResult.ARG_POSITION, value);
        newFragment.setArguments(args);
        FragmentTransaction transaction = getSupportFragmentManager()
                .beginTransaction();

        transaction.replace(R.id.fragment_container, newFragment);
        transaction.addToBackStack("search");
        getSupportFragmentManager().popBackStack("search", FragmentManager.POP_BACK_STACK_INCLUSIVE);
        transaction.commit();

    }
}

As you can see in the above code I have called clearFocus on the search view inside the onqquery textlistener. It hides the keyboard and again shows it after the new fragment transaction is done. How do I make it work?

Note: I have also tried the following approach without any luck

try {
            InputMethodManager input = (InputMethodManager) getActivity()
                    .getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            input.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getActivity().getCurrentFocus().getWindowToken(), 0);
        }catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Answer 1

After hours of search I have managed to fix it with a single line of code. As I said the issue was the action bar is getting focused after results are generated.

All I had to do was to put this

searchView.setFocusable(false);

before calling the results fragment. Hope this helps someone!