EditText, clear focus on touch outside

I tried all these solutions. edc598's was the closest to working, but touch events did not trigger on other Views contained in the layout. In case anyone needs this behavior, this is what I ended up doing:

I created an (invisible) FrameLayout called touchInterceptor as the last View in the layout so that it overlays everything (edit: you also have to use a RelativeLayout as the parent layout and give the touchInterceptor fill_parent attributes). Then I used it to intercept touches and determine if the touch was on top of the EditText or not:

FrameLayout touchInterceptor = (FrameLayout)findViewById(R.id.touchInterceptor);
touchInterceptor.setOnTouchListener(new OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
            if (mEditText.isFocused()) {
                Rect outRect = new Rect();
                mEditText.getGlobalVisibleRect(outRect);
                if (!outRect.contains((int)event.getRawX(), (int)event.getRawY())) {
                    mEditText.clearFocus();
                    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) v.getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE); 
                    imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
                }
            }
        }
        return false;
    }
});

Return false to let the touch handling fall through.

It's hacky, but it's the only thing that worked for me.

Just put these properties in the top most parent.

android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:clickable="true"
android:focusable="true" 

For the EditText's parent view, let the following 3 attributes be "true":
clickable, focusable, focusableInTouchMode.

If a view want to receive focus, it must satisfy these 3 conditions.

See android.view :

public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    ...
    if (((viewFlags & CLICKABLE) == CLICKABLE || 
        (viewFlags & LONG_CLICKABLE) == LONG_CLICKABLE)) {
        ...
        if (isFocusable() && isFocusableInTouchMode()
            && !isFocused()) {
                focusTaken = requestFocus();
        }
        ...
    }
    ...
}

Hope it helps.

Building on Ken's answer, here's the most modular copy-and-paste solution.

No XML needed.

Put it in your Activity and it'll apply to all EditTexts including those within fragments within that activity.

@Override
public boolean dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent event) {
    if (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
        View v = getCurrentFocus();
        if ( v instanceof EditText) {
            Rect outRect = new Rect();
            v.getGlobalVisibleRect(outRect);
            if (!outRect.contains((int)event.getRawX(), (int)event.getRawY())) {
                v.clearFocus();
                InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
                imm.hideSoftInputFromWindow(v.getWindowToken(), 0);
            }
        }
    }
    return super.dispatchTouchEvent( event );
}