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SoftKeyboard hides edittext

I have an EdiText at the bottom of my layout.The issue I was having is that when it gets focus the screen shifts upwards to give space to soft keyboard.To resolve it I added
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
inside my Activity declaration in manifest.Now the problem is that the edittext hides behind the softkeyboard although screen doesn't shifts.
If instead I put
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
then the activity's main window shifts upward which i don't want.
How can i resolve this in such way that when EdiText gets focus activity's main window does NOT shift upwards to make room for the soft keyboard but the main window is resized including the EdiText so that keyboard comes below EdiText as seen in many apps.
Layout
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/background_feed">
<ProgressBar
android:id="#+id/progress"
style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleLarge"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal|center_vertical" />
<ListView
android:id="#+id/comments"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#F7F7F7"
android:paddingTop="10dp"
android:layout_above="#+id/border_view_comment"
android:divider="#android:color/transparent"
android:dividerHeight="10dp"
android:paddingBottom="10dp"
android:clipToPadding="false"
android:scrollbarStyle="outsideOverlay" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/empty_view"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"
android:text="#string/no_comment_msg"
android:visibility="gone"/>
<View
android:id="#+id/border_view_comment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="1dp"
android:layout_above="#+id/commentlayout"
android:background="#C7C7C7"
android:visibility="gone"/>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/commentlayout"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:background="#drawable/comment_box_shadow"
android:padding="10dp">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/commentor_image"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_marginRight="15dp"
/>
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/clickPostComment"
android:layout_width="30dp"
android:layout_height="45dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:src="#drawable/post"
android:textColor="#color/white" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/commentsPost"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="45dp"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/commentor_image"
android:layout_marginRight="10dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/clickPostComment"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/commentor_image"
android:background="#drawable/comment_edittext_bg"
android:hint="Comments"
android:singleLine="true"
android:maxLength="140"
android:paddingLeft="10dp"
android:paddingRight="10dp"
android:textColor="#color/title_gray"
android:textColorHint="#d5d5d5"
android:textSize="15sp" />
<ImageView
android:layout_width="25dp"
android:layout_height="30dp"
android:layout_alignTop="#id/commentsPost"
android:layout_marginLeft="10dp"
android:layout_marginRight="-2dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/commentsPost"
android:scaleType="fitStart"
android:src="#drawable/comment_shape" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

make your view scrollable by embed your view inside Scrollview
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
.....
add your layout
......
</ScrollView>
If that doesn't help make you root layout as RelativeLayout and design your layout with RelativeLayout

view sliding over layout

I have relative layout. Within which I have many views like edit text, text views and so on. I do lots of animations in that. Everything was perfectly fine. But at one point, I have a requirement.
It is the password page. Create and confirm password. Two edittexts one after another. If the password doesnt meet the requirement, a plain orange view should slide up with error message "Invalid password".
So I put create and confirm password in linear layout. The linear layout will slide up, letting user type in passwords. After validation, if there is an error, the linear layout should slide down and the plain view will slide up. I kept the view invisible and when required I made it visible and wrote the code to slide up. The same code works when I just use single edit text instead of linear layout. But it is not working when using linear layout. Am I doing something wrong?
Adding code to it. The code specific to this issue starts with till the end of coding
I declared linear layout as view and NOT VIEWGROUP.
EDIT: After doing analysis, I found that the view I am trying to slide up after sliding down the layout is hidden somewhere in the view hierarchy.
view.bringToFront() helps to bring the error view to the front and slides up.
But after that the problem is, after my linear layout slide down, the error view is not sliding up straight away. Because I am using bringToFront(), it displays the view first on the whole screen (with background color as orange) and then the sliding starts.
I am not sure whether it is correct but I fixed this issue like this.
no background color has been given to the view
I used errorView.bringToFront () and errorView.setVisibility(true) in the animationEnd() of a Layout slidingdown animation listener.
I defined sliding up animation for the errorView in the same animationEnd() of layout sliding down listener
In the animationStart() of errorView sliding up animation listener, I defined the background color of the errorView. Now its working as expected.
But let me know better way of doing this.
//Declaration
View greyView, orangeView, yellowView, blueView, orangeErrorView, letsGetStartedView, welcomeBckView, passwordMasterLayout, orangePwdErrorView;
TextView welcomeText,errorTextView, letsGetStartedTextView, welcomeBckTxtView, errorPwdMsg;
//Password Error Handling
orangePwdErrorView = v.findViewById(R.id.orangePasswordErrorView);
errorPwdMsg = (TextView) v.findViewById(R.id.errorPasswordMessage);
//Layout code
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:id="#+id/sample_main_layout">
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/sample_content_fragment"
android:layout_weight="76.4"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0px" />
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/bottomPanel"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="23.6">
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
sample_content_fragment framelayout takes the below code
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<View
android:id="#+id/grey"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#58595B" />
<View
android:id="#+id/orange"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#F26724"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<View
android:id="#+id/yellow"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#FDB518"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<View
android:id="#+id/blue"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#1893D2"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="260dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="#string/welcome"
android:id="#+id/welcomeTextView"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="51dp"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:textSize="20dp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:visibility="invisible"
/>
<ImageView
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:layout_width="60dp"
android:id="#+id/clinicloud_logo"
android:clickable="true"
android:src="#drawable/clinicloud_icon"
android:layout_marginRight="50dp"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:layout_marginStart="35dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginBottom="40dp" />
<View
android:id="#+id/orangeErrorView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#F26724"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="90dp"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
android:ems="10"
android:id="#+id/emailEditText"
android:text="#string/enter_email"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:background="#f4f4f4"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:visibility="invisible"/>
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:id="#+id/errorMessage"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/welcomeTextView"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:visibility="invisible"/>
<!--UI components for welcome back page-->
<View
android:id="#+id/welcomeBackView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#134F9F"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/welcome_back"
android:id="#+id/welcomeBackTxtView"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/welcomeTextView"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/clinicloud_logo"
android:textSize="20dp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:visibility="invisible"/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="90dp"
android:ems="10"
android:id="#+id/password"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/emailEditText"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:text="Password"
android:visibility="invisible"
android:background="#d2d1d1"
/>
<!--UI components for Let's get started page-->
<View
android:id="#+id/letsGetStartedView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#5C3A91"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Let&apos;s get started"
android:id="#+id/letsGetStartedTxtView"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/welcomeTextView"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/clinicloud_logo"
android:textSize="20dp"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:visibility="invisible"/>
<!--Linear layout to show the create and confirm password-->
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="180dp"
android:gravity="bottom"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/emailEditText"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:weightSum="1"
android:id="#+id/passwordMasterView"
android:visibility="invisible">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
android:id="#+id/createPwd"
android:layout_weight="0.50"
android:background="#F4F4F4"
android:text="#string/create_password"
/>
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="text"
android:id="#+id/confirmPwd"
android:layout_weight="0.50"
android:background="#E3E3E3"
android:text="#string/confirm_password" />
</LinearLayout>
<!-- To show password errors-->
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/orangePasswordErrorView"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#F26724"
android:visibility="invisible" />
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
android:id="#+id/errorPasswordMessage"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/welcomeTextView"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:visibility="invisible"
/>
<!-- To show password errors-->
</RelativeLayout>
The java logic is in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30523599/sliding-up-and-down-android
Please direct for any incorrect codings

I kept the view invisible and when required I made it visible and wrote the code to slide up.
I think you must do it in DialogFragment or custom AlertDialog that will be shown above your layout, if dont want to do this try envelop your RelativeLayout in FrameLayout and adding in it LinearLayout for example but visout your code difficult to say in what problem it is

You should consider using a library for the sliding panel, one that I've had excellent experiences with (and supports the functionality that your after) is umano's AndroidSlidingUpPanel. https://github.com/umano/AndroidSlidingUpPanel

EditText in ListView is not editable

I am trying to build a form using an EditText view that is nested in a ListView. There are a couple of levels of RelativeLayout and LinearLayout objects between the ListView and the EditText, but from what I've read this shouldn't be a problem.
I've tried all I can think of. I have set android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" in the AndroidManifest for my activity, and I have set android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" for my ListView as well. I have even set that for all layout objects between the ListView and the EditText. However, none of this seems to work.
The main issue I have is the soft keyboard doesn't show up, and even when I double tap the text field to pull up the editing options I still cannot type anything into the EditText area. Am I just flat out using the wrong object control for this?
This is the layout code for my ListView object.
<ListView
android:id="#+id/FormlistView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
style="#style/KelFormListView" />
This is the layout code for my form_list_item.xml file. This is the item that is displayed in the form list.
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="120dp"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants">
<!-- Top Layout -->
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:weightSum="10"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:id="#+id/TopLayout">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/TitleTextView"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="7"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="Headling Rent (pa)"
android:textSize="16dp"
style="#style/KelFormListItemLabel" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="3"
android:weightSum="2"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:background="#color/formListItemValueBackgroundColor">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/CurrencyIconView"
android:layout_width="22dp"
android:layout_height="22dp"
android:layout_weight="0"
android:src="#drawable/icon_currency_pound"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/ValueTextView"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:gravity="right|center_vertical"
android:text="20,000"
android:textSize="16dp"
android:inputType="number"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:editable="true"
style="#style/KelFormListItemValue"/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<!-- Bottom Layout -->
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="60dp"
android:weightSum="10"
android:id="#+id/BottomLayout"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:layout_below="#+id/TopLayout">
<TextView
android:id="#+id/BottomTitleTextView"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="7"
android:gravity="center_vertical"
android:text="Headling Rent (pa)"
android:textSize="16dp"
style="#style/KelFormListItemLabel" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="3"
android:weightSum="2"
android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
android:background="#color/formListItemValueBackgroundColor">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/BottomCurrencyIconView"
android:layout_width="22dp"
android:layout_height="22dp"
android:layout_weight="0"
android:src="#drawable/icon_currency_pound"
android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
android:layout_marginLeft="5dp" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/BottomValueTextView"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:gravity="right|center_vertical"
android:text="20,000"
android:textSize="16dp"
android:inputType="number"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:editable="true"
style="#style/KelFormListItemValue"/>
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

Ok, figured out my own issue. The primary issue had nothing todo with any of my code. The problem was actually the emulator it's self. When creating a new virtual device in Android ADV there is a settings called "Enable Keyboard", or something along those lines. This setting allows you to use your hardware keyboard with the emulator, but it prevents the soft keyboard from showing up. That was my problem.
In my opinion this setting can easily cause confusion since it's not until you display the advanced settings that it appears. This just seems to me to be a poor decision that someone over at Google has made. Yet another reason why iOS development is easier...in my opinion of-course.

android message box layout implementation

I was trying to implement a message box similar with that of Hangout. I want the edittext to expand if more content is typed into it, with the button to the right remain at the bottom right corner.
My current implement is as follows. The button to the right will move up if the edit text expands due to "alignParentTop". But if I set "alignParentBottom" as true, the entire screen will get occupied by this relative layout. Any idea how to fix it
<RelativeLayout android:id="#+id/structured_relative_interaction"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:background="#E0E0E0">
<ImageButton android:id="#+id/structured_imagebutton_takePhoto"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:background="#drawable/save_structured_button"
android:src="#drawable/take_photo"/>
<EditText android:id="#+id/structured_edittext_answer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#id/structured_imagebutton_takePhoto"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:gravity="top"
android:maxLines="5"
android:padding="10dp"
android:hint="#string/structured_hint"
android:textColorHint="#B0B0B0"
android:inputType="textCapSentences|textMultiLine">
</EditText>
</RelativeLayout>

I was able to achieve it using the following layout (some ids for images and strings were changed to make it compileable):
<!--suppress AndroidLintUselessParent, AndroidLintContentDescription -->
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/structured_relative_interaction"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:gravity="bottom"
android:background="#E0E0E0">
<EditText
android:id="#+id/structured_edittext_answer"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/structured_imagebutton_takePhoto"
android:layout_margin="5dp"
android:gravity="bottom"
android:maxLines="5"
android:padding="10dp"
android:hint="hint"
android:textColorHint="#B0B0B0"
android:inputType="textCapSentences|textMultiLine" />
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/structured_imagebutton_takePhoto"
android:layout_width="40dp"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/structured_edittext_answer"
android:background="#drawable/ic_launcher" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Will produce:
Seems it's common issue with ExitText and RelativeLayout (at least, I've seen some similar questions previously).

<EditText
android:id="#+id/write_post"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="85dip"
android:ems="10"
android:gravity="top"
android:hint="#string/write_post"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" >
</EditText>
set android:inputType to textMultiLine, android automatically expands edittext if the text exceeds from its boundry.

Android edittext auto grow with text and pushing things down

Yes, this is yet another edittext grow question on SO. And yes I've already gone through all those edittext grow questions. But this ones a bit specific.
UI:
A simple android layout with edittext and button below it. When text is less, the edittext view is still covering whole screen leaving space for button below.
Once user starts entering text, edittext grows vertically to accommodate text. At the same time, the button should also kept pushing downwards to let edittext grow.
User can vertically scroll through screen to view full text.
UI after entering significant text:
Here's the layout with edittext and button below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#color/background"
android:clipToPadding="false"
android:fadingEdge="none"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:padding="13dp"
android:scrollbarStyle="outsideOverlay" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_weight="1">
<!-- some fixed width image -->
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/someimage"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="4dp"
android:src="#drawable/page_white_text" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/some"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/someimage"
android:background="#null"
android:gravity="top"
android:minLines="10"
android:minHeight="50dp"
android:textColor="#222222"
android:textSize="15dp"
android:typeface="serif" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:baselineAligned="true"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:padding="10dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
This works more or less. But when I enter to much text, instead of pushing button downwards. It goes behind it like:
Any help here is much appreciated. Thanks :)

Here's my recommendation: inside the ScrollView, put a RelativeLayout in which you can place every element in a certain order using android:layout_below. For the auto-growing of your EditText, use this solution.
Let's see an example:
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_gravity="center">
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/general2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_margin="20sp" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textFirstOpinion"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:text="#string/titleFirstOpinion"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:textSize="23sp"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/fieldFirstOpinion"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/textFirstOpinion"
android:minHeight="80sp"
android:isScrollContainer="true"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:textSize="20sp"
android:gravity="top|left" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/button"
android:layout_width="110dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/fieldFirstOpinion"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="37sp"
android:textSize="23sp"
android:text="#string/textSendButton"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:padding="10dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>

try adding android:layout_below="#id/some" in your LinearLayout like
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:baselineAligned="true"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:padding="10dp"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_below="#id/some" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Button" />
</LinearLayout>

Since you want the button to be at the bottom of the page, add the following line
android:layout_below="#+id/some"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
in your LinearLayout code here like
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/some"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:baselineAligned="true"
android:layout_marginTop="5dp"
android:padding="10dp"
android:orientation="vertical" >
Also make sure the layout:height parameter of EditText is set to wrap_content
Try this and tell me if it works or not