I have an EditText field, and 2 buttons at the bottom: Next and Back.
now when I click on the edit text, the buttons are hidden under the keyboard.
I saw this post on Stack: Android: How to push button above soft keyboard. using android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" in the app manifest file for that specific activity.
But, I saw other apps code where the buttons are pushed up, and they do not use this attribute at the manifest file. So it is probably done in the xml file.
So, how can it be done via XML? Also, if I simply use android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" in the manifest, am I supposed to encounter problems? How does it lift exactly these 2 buttons? What would happen if I had more content in the activity? How would it lift it above the keyboard?
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I'm working on an Android app with Android Studio. I have a form with several field and 2 buttons at the bottom to either validate or going back. The problem is that as soon as I click in one of the EditText of the form, the 2 buttons are following the keyboard.
How to prevent these 2 buttons to show up and force them to stay at the bottom of the page, hidden behind the keyboard. The form is in a ScrollView, which is in a ConstraintLayout. I tried many things like having my 2 buttons in the ConstraintLayout. Also outside in a RelativeLayout with constraint at the bottom of the parent... I also tried to use LinearLayout instead of the ConstraintLayout and weight each component but the buttons are still there. The only way I found is to use a vertical LinearLayout without weighting the components. But then I have the problem of not seeing the buttons if the screen is too small. I would like buttons to stay at the bottom.
Is it normal? Do I have to fix it from the code by hiding the buttons when focusing on one of the TextEdit, or by the layouts?
The other thing is that if I click on the last field ("Ville"), the form doesn't move and I still see the first 2 lines...
Thanks a lot for your help
On your manifest.xml you can set android:windowSoftInputMode to adjustPan.
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" />
From Android documentation:
Don't resize the window to make room for the soft input area; instead
pan the contents of the window as focus moves inside of it so that the
user can see what they are typing. This is generally less desireable
than panning because the user may need to close the input area to get
at and interact with parts of the window
I have searched for various answers for this particular problem but could not find one. I am developing an android application and I am currently up to arranging the layouts.
My problem is when a soft keyboard opens up in a form containing lots of input fields, the buttons at the bottom also keeps coming up. What I want is the buttons should not come up and along with this the form should be scrollable to bottom of the layout while the soft keyboard is still visible.
Before I was trying lots of modes combinations for windowSoftInputMode inside AndroidManifest.xml in the respective activity, but could not get any satisfactory result.
Screenshots:
The normal form (shown the bottom part) looks like this:
When the soft keyboard opens up, it cuts the lower portion i.e. I am unable to scroll the layout further.
I somehow managed to remove the buttons using following code, I do not know whether this is correct or not:
<activity
android:name=".usermanagement.SignUp"
android:label="साइन अप"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan" />
Now I am wondering whether I can scroll to the bottom of the layout while keeping the soft keyboard active and not showing the buttons(Home button and Next button)
After looking up various questions on stack overflow, I have found that many other people had the following problems:
Background gets resized when soft keyboard opens
Soft keyboard opens when activity starts
The solution to both of these lies in the ActivityManifest.xml.
To prevent the background image from being resized when the soft keyboard opens, you can add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan" to the <activity> in the manifest.
To prevent the soft keyboard opening when the activity starts, you can add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" to the <activity> in the manifest.
The fact that one solution requires stateHidden and the other requires stateVisible means that I cannot use both solutions. I am looking to prevent the soft keyboard from stealing focus on activity start but also prevent the soft keyboard from resizing the background when the user does decide to focus on the EditText.
Is there a viable solution to both of these issues?
The fact that one solution requires stateHidden and the other requires
stateVisible means that I cannot use both solutions.
Yes. But, you can use stateHidden|adjustPan.
Keyboard will not pop up unless user clicks on an EditText. And potential changes to your background will be in terms of positioning; scaling of the background will not occur.
If your EditText is wrapped within a parent container, set android:focusableInTouchMode="true" for that container. Basically, make that container receive the initial focus when the activity starts. Take a look at this link
Is any part of your layout a scrollable container (like ListView)? If so, try setting android:isScrollContainer="false" on that item in your XML layout.
If you have any views which have android:isScrollContainer="true", the layout manager will attempt to resize your layout when the keyboard pops up, regardless of `android:windowSoftInputMode'.
Here's a similar question: What does android:isScrollContainer do?
There are basically two ways to fulfill your requirement.
Just use the below activity tag
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden"
Or
Using
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan" to the activity tag in the manifest.
Now with your EditText use following android:focusableInTouchMode="true" with android:focusable="false".
I done a form with 5 edittexts but when the keyboard is going to show the last two edittext I can't see.
Only way to switch to the next fields is to use the buttons on the keyboard.
There is any solution to add a scroll without use the buttons?
I tried with sdk 3, resize keyboard and other things like that.
Why not keep the entire layout in a scrollview. And add the attribute to the activity in manifest file
<activity android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize">
So when the keyboard is shown, the layout will be scrollable.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#wsoft
Have you tried adding the android:windowSoftInputMode tag to your activity in the manifest? From what you are describing I would think that either adjustResize or adjustPan should work.
i have an activity with an edit box, when the user touches inside the edit box, the soft keyboard comes up. if the user presses the hardware "back" button, the soft keyboard goes away. I want to detect this situation. I have looked around and the best response i've seen so far is this one:
http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/9d1681a01f05e782
my question is -- how can you detect if your application window has been resized?
I added this text to my activities in my android manifest file:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
but I'm not quite sure how to detect the change.
any help greatly appreciated.
Android does not provide an API for checking if the keyboard is visible or not. You can, however, key off the height of your top level layout to determine this information.
First, you have to set your activity's android:windowSoftInputMode attribute to "adjustResize".
Then, create a new class that extends your desired layout type (eg LinearLayout). In that class, you can override a few different methods that will be called as the height of your layout changes (due to the keyboard being shown or hidden). When these calls are triggered, you can compare the height of your layout to the height of the screen. If there's a substantial difference between the two (ie more than just the size of the notification bar), the keyboard is visible.
Finally, make sure that you use your new class as the top level layout in your layout xml (eg in place of LinearLayout).
If you would like a more thorough explanation, I've written one up: http://www.cannedcoding.com/2011/08/soft-keyboard.html
Creating an Input Method Service (See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/inputmethodservice/InputMethodService.html) to listen for the back button might work. When it is pressed, you can pass that on to your activity which then does what you want it to do along with removing the soft keyboard.