Methods to hide or show the soft keyboard in an Android activity

KeyboardUtil.java

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.inputmethod.InputMethodManager;


/**
 * Utility methods for manipulating the onscreen keyboard
 */
public class KeyboardUtil {
    /**
     * Hides the soft keyboard
     */
    public static void hideSoftKeyboard(Activity activity) {
        View focusedView = activity.getCurrentFocus();
        if(focusedView != null) {
            InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) activity.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
            inputMethodManager.hideSoftInputFromWindow(focusedView.getWindowToken(), 0);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Shows the soft keyboard
     */
    public static void showSoftKeyboard(View view) {
        InputMethodManager inputMethodManager = (InputMethodManager) view.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        view.requestFocus();
        inputMethodManager.showSoftInput(view, 0);
    }

    // Class is not instantiable
    private KeyboardUtil() {}
}