How to dismiss keyboard in Android SearchView?

I was trying to do something similar. I needed to launch the SearchActivity from another Activity and have the search term appear on the opened search field when it loaded. I tried all the approaches above but finally (similar to Ridcully's answer above) I set a variable to SearchView in onCreateOptionsMenu() and then in onQueryTextSubmit() called clearFocus() on the SearchView when the user submitted a new search:

private SearchView searchView;@Overridepublic boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {    getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.search_menu, menu);    searchView = (SearchView) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search)            .getActionView(); // set the reference to the searchView    searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this);     searchMenuItem = (MenuItem) menu.findItem(R.id.menu_search);     searchMenuItem.expandActionView(); // expand the search action item automatically    searchView.setQuery("<put your search term here>", false); // fill in the search term by default    searchView.clearFocus(); // close the keyboard on load    return true;}@Overridepublic boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {    performNewSearch(query);    searchView.clearFocus();    return true;}

Simple, straight to the point and clean:

  @Override  public boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String query) {      // your search methods      searchView.clearFocus();      return true;  }

just return false on onQueryTextSubmit just like below

@Overridepublic boolean onQueryTextSubmit(String s) {     return false;}