How to dismiss the keyboard in appium using Java?

Best way is to use the back button.

driver.navigate().back(); // For older version of appium

Add these desired capabilities values if you want to disable the keyboard on your android selenium tests.

capabilities.setCapability("unicodeKeyboard", true);
capabilities.setCapability("resetKeyboard", true);

driver.hideKeyboard() will only work with AppiumDriver. I am using java-client-2.2.0.jar that contains this capability.

Please use Appium 1.0

Add libraries or add maven dependency of Appium Java client:

<dependency>
  <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
  <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Create driver instance in the following way:

AppiumDriver driver=null;
driver= new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"),capabilities);

And use the following function to hide the keyboard:

driver.hideKeyboard();

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