There are times when you want to hide the virtual keyboard in android. You can easily do that using the InputMethodManager.
How to hide virtual keyboard in android using Java ?
Just call the hideSoftInputFromWindow method of the InputMethodManager class by passing the token of the current window that contains the focussed view. Below is a sample code snippet demonstrating the usage of InputMethodManager to hide the virtual keyboard in java.
View currentView = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (currentView != null) {
InputMethodManager inputManager = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
inputManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(currentView.getWindowToken(), 0);
}