Question

Is there any intent/event that i can listen to when user slide out the keyboard on a phone with keyboard?

Thank you.

Answer 1

in your Manifest file, add this to your activity definition:
android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden"

and in your Activity java file, override the method onConfigurationChanged:

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
    if(newConfig.hardKeyboardHidden == Configuration.HARDKEYBOARDHIDDEN_NO) {
       //handle keyboard slide out event
    }
    else if(newConfig.hardKeyboardHidden == Configuration.HARDKEYBOARDHIDDEN_YES)
        //handle keyboard slide in event
    }
}

when a keyboard event fires off in this activity, this method will be called and you can do whatever you want.