Hide Virtual Keyboard in on Chrome on Android

Question

Is there a way I can hide Soft Keyboar or Virtual Keyboard on Chrome on Android using Selenium or ChromeOptions or ADB. I did some searching but all solution were like if the keyboard is open then press back button to hide it. But is there a way to disable virtual keyboard from poping up during my entire execution.

Answer 1

So I found a way to disable and enable keybords using adb shell ime commands. I wrote a Python script to enable/disable all keyboard inputs.

def enable_disable_android_input_methods(action):
    p = subprocess.Popen(["adb", "devices"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    line = p.stdout.readline()
    while line:
        log.info(line)
        if re.match("\S+\s+device", line):
            break
        line = p.stdout.readline()
    else:
        raise AssertionError, "Device not connected via USB"
    p = subprocess.Popen("adb shell ime list -a".split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
    line = p.stdout.readline()
    while line:
        m = re.search("mId=(.*)", line)
        if m:
            if action.lower() == 'enable':
                log.info("Enabling Keyboard layout: %s" % line)
                cmd = "adb shell ime enable %s" % m.group(1)
            else:
                log.info("Disabling Keyboard layout: %s" % line)
                cmd = "adb shell ime disable %s" % m.group(1)
            q = subprocess.Popen(cmd.split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
            out, err = q.communicate()
            log.info(out)
        line = p.stdout.readline()