Hide Numeric Keyboard ONLY WHEN clicked outside any of the Edit Text

Question

I have three different Edit Text with restriction of entering only numeric values, thus tapping on any one of the Edit Text opens NUMERIC KEYBOARD.

I tried to implement setOnFocusChangeListener for all Edit Text which ensures that when user tap anywhere outside any of the Edit Text hide the keyboard.

editText1.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (!hasFocus) {
            hideKeyboard(v);
        }
    }
});

editText2.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (!hasFocus) {
            hideKeyboard(v);
        }
    }
});

editText3.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
        if (!hasFocus) {
            hideKeyboard(v);
        }
    }
});

And here is the implementation of 'hideKeyBoard'

public void hideKeyboard(View view) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager =(InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Activity.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
    }

This works fine, however, when I change focus from one EditText to another EditText, keyboard hides. This behaviour might be frustrating for user.

How can I deal with it and avoid unnecessary hiding of keyboard.

P.S I need to ensure that keyboard is numeric not alphabetical in any case.

When the user tap other EditText, the previous EditText lose focus... then, hides the Keyboard. Maybe you can think in "if user focus on: RelativeLayout, LinearLayout, etc" hide the keyboard and not anywhere outside the EditText — Mariano Zorrilla, Sep 08 '15 at 18:08
@Mariano The way you suggested unfortunately shows up alphabetical keyboard (reason of my PS) — user3276435, Sep 08 '15 at 18:28
Can you post your exittext xml inside the layout? You can set the edittext to always be numerical. — Mariano Zorrilla, Sep 08 '15 at 18:34
@MarianoZorrilla Thank you very much, your way helped and its working. Sorry for not appreciating your help earlier. I was away from internet for couple of days. — user3276435, Sep 11 '15 at 16:24

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 11 '15 at 16:39

Thank you MarianoZorrila for correcting me on my approach to the problem.
Here are the changes I performed to solve this problem.

Gave an Id to my Relative Layout

<RelativeLayout
...
...
android:id="@+id/parent">

Modifications to Java File

View parent = findViewById(R.id.parent);
parent.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.OnFocusChangeListener() {
    @Override
    public void onFocusChange(View view, boolean hasFocus) {
        if(hasFocus){
            hideKeyboard(view);
        }
    }
});

Hide Numeric Keyboard ONLY WHEN clicked outside any of the Edit Text

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