Sometimes you may want to programmatically close or open the soft keyboard in your app.

Open soft keyboard

When you click on a button you can focus an editText and open the keyboard, to start typing

//Get EditText instance
EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.edit_text);

//focus editText
editText.requestFocus();

//create InputMethodManager
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

//show soft keyboard and you can start typing into editText
imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);

Hide soft keyboard

When you submit a form, you may want to hide the keyboard, even if the editText is still focused

//create InputMethodManager
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

//hide soft keyboard
imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY, 0);