How to close or hide the android soft Keyboard

Solution:
You can force the android to close the virtual keyboard.

hideSoftInputFromWindow function to close the virtual keyboard

Code:

View myview = this.getCurrentFocus();
if (myview != null) {      InputMethodManager inm = (InputMethodManager)getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    inm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(view.getWindowToken(), 0);
}