The Art of Doing: Dive Into Android Development with Kotlin - Writing Our Main Activity Part 4

The video tutorial explains how to hide the keyboard in an Android app after a button click. It discusses the challenge of controlling a native Android OS feature from within an app and introduces the context class to access system services. The tutorial provides a detailed walkthrough of implementing a function to hide the keyboard using the input method manager. Finally, it demonstrates testing the function to ensure it works as expected, concluding with a successful implementation.

What challenges might arise when trying to control the keyboard from within an app?

Explain how the context class is used to manage the keyboard visibility.

How does the 'get system service' method function in relation to input methods?

What is the purpose of the input method manager in an Android application?

In what scenarios would you want to hide the keyboard programmatically?

What is the significance of passing a window token when hiding the keyboard?

Describe the process of hiding the keyboard after updating a message.