How to disable the text-pad rising while filling a textfield in Cucumber+Appium+Android mobile automation?

Is there any way to stop/disable the text-pad rising while filling a string in textfield in Cucumber+Appium mobile automation in Android device.

Try to hide keyboard.

How to hide that key-pad in Android device. I tried all the settings under “Language and input” option, but nothing seems to be working.

driver.hide_keyboard method on Ruby
See docs: http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?ruby#hide-keyboard
Almost everything is in the docs…