Android hide keyboard when touched outside

Android. Hide Soft Keyboard On Android After Clicking Outside EditText

Nov 12, 2010

Everyone knows that to hide a keyboard you need to implement:

But the big deal here is how to hide the keyboard when the user touches or selects any other place that is not an EditBox or the softKeyboard?

I tryied to use the onTouchEvent on my parent Activity but that only works if user touches outside any other view and there is no scrollview.

I even tryed to implement my own scrollview to intercept touch events but i can only get the coordinates of the event and not the view clicked.

Is there a standard way to do this? in iPhone it was really easy.

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