How to hide soft keyboard programmatically in Android

To hide the virtual keyboard using InputMethodManager, calling hideSoftInputFromWindow, passing in the token of the window containing your edit field.

InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(AtmosAccountAuthenticationActivity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(editText.getWindowToken(), 0);

This will force the keyboard to be hidden in all situations. In some cases you will want to pass in InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY as the second parameter to ensure you only hide the keyboard when the user didn't explicitly force it to appear (by holding down menu).