Android MaterialAutoCompleteTextView hide Keyboard on show ExposedDropdownMenu

Question

Consider a MaterialAutoCompleteTextView nested in a TextInputLayout using an ExposedDowpdownMenu. How do I hide a Softkeyboard already shown by a previous TextInputEditText? It also should hide the keyboard if we navigate from the previous focused TextInputEditText with an imeOption=actionNext. Since the MaterialAutoCompleteTextView decorated with an ExposedDropdownMenu is not focusable onFocusChanged() does not work. Additionally, I didn't found any property like i.e. "onShowDropDown" or similar to trigger my "hideKeyboard()" method.

<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox"
    android:layout_width="0dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_weight=".75"
    android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
    android:hint="@string/cvinfo_city"
    android:layout_marginBottom="@dimen/default_margin">

    <com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputEditText
        android:id="@+id/cvinfo_city"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:imeOptions="actionNext"
        android:inputType="text"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="@={viewModel.user.general.address.city}" />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>


<com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout
    style="@style/Widget.MaterialComponents.TextInputLayout.OutlinedBox.ExposedDropdownMenu"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:hint="@string/cvinfo_country"
    android:layout_marginBottom="@dimen/default_margin">

    <com.google.android.material.textfield.MaterialAutoCompleteTextView
        android:id="@+id/cvinfo_country"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:imeOptions="actionDone"
        android:maxLines="1"
        android:text="@{viewModel.user.general.address.country}" />
</com.google.android.material.textfield.TextInputLayout>

imeAction=next keyboard does not hide

Also want to hide keyboard if dropdown shows

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65899406/android-materialautocompletetextview-hide-keyboard-on-show-exposeddropdownmenu

Answer 1

To not show the keyboard when opening the dropdown add the following to in your XML code:

android:inputType="none"