Android - Hide keyboard when tapping outside of an EditText

README.md

1. Make your EditText elements be of type FocusChangeEditText in xml.

2. Set the parent view of your FocusChangeEditText to have xml attributes

    android:clickable="true"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
   

   as described here

FocusChangeEditText.java

public class FocusChangeEditText extends android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText {
    public FocusChangeEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        OnFocusChangeListener dismissKeyboardOnTapListener = new OnFocusChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
                if (!hasFocus) {
                    Keyboard.hide(v);
                }
            }
        };
        this.setOnFocusChangeListener(dismissKeyboardOnTapListener);
    }
}

Keyboard.java

public class Keyboard {
    public static void hide(View view) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager)view.getContext().getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        if (inputMethodManager != null) {
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }
}