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How to resolve view pushing problem of Android keyboard when clicking on EditText?

In my Android app, when a user clicks on EditText the keyboard appears and just pushes all the screen views upwards dislocating my UI components.
How can I solve this issue, I want the keyboard to overlay over my UI components and then the user can type what he/she wants.

Add this to the activity in your AndroidManifest.xml
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation|screenSize"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"

How to remove keypad from edit text ,but show keypad when click on edit text?

In my app the first view of all my screens is an EditText, so every time I go to a screen the onscreen keypad pops up. how can I disable this popping up and enable it when manually clicked on the EditText????
getActivity().getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);
This can be used in Fragment Class to move the Edit text up and Scroll till the end. The problem is that when I click on an EditText the keyboard pops up. I think I have to do it in java. Thank you!!!

You need to set windowSoftInputMode attribute to each activity in AndroidManifest.xml file.
<activity
android:name="YourActivityPath"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"/>

In the parent layout of you view add android:focusableInTouchMode="true" this will put the focus on the parent view and you won't need to do anything else to invoke the keyboard, it will automatically show when the edit text is clicked

How to disable keyboard popup?

The keyboard pops up wherever there's an EditText item. I wan't to disable this popup from occurring automatically and only want the keyboard to appear when the user manually sets focus on the EditText field.
I have added the following in my Manifest file but it doesn't appear to work:
<activity android:name=".AccountActivity" android:label="yourtime" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateHidden"></activity>

As I already wrote in the comment use the getWindow() method of your host-activity to set the SOFT_INPUT_STATE_AL‌​WAYS_HIDDEN flag. There is no need to invoke anything on an EditText when you want to disable the up-popping keyboard generally in this specific activity.

You can also set this in the manifest file. For each activity, add the following attribute.
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"

Android Keyboard do not open on focus in Edittext

There are lot of questions regarding android keyboard not opening ,when there is a focus on edittext.
And there are many ways also to open keyboard forcefully.However usually keyboard opens automatically on request focus. But in some cases it do not opens even there is a focus in edittext.
What usually happens behind that keyboard do not appears automatically as it usually does ?

For automatic keyboard, use the following
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE);
also this can help in manifest file :
<activity
android:name="com.example.activities.MyActivity"
android:configChanges="keyboard"
>
</activity>

Why does soft keyboard show up?

Is there any way to find out why the soft keyboard show up in one of my views ?
The app is quite big and it's not obvious why the keyboard gets enabled. Do you know any way to debug that?

You can use the following line of code in the activity's onCreate method to make sure the keyboard only pops up when a user clicks into an EditText
this.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN);
or
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
In the manifest.