Why does the soft keyboard change the layout so dramatically when I swap this screen to landscape? It works perfectly fine in portrait. I am assuming that it has to do with the limited space, but the keyboard could still open without covering the EditText that spawned it. It even inserts a Search button. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?
This is default Android behavior, users should be used to it. But if you really don't want this to happen, you can put android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" in the EditText layout.
Also, the "Search" button is what you've specified in the android:imeOptions for the action.
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I have two EditText views and one ImageView. My goal is to hide the ImageView when i am showing the keyboard (When the user have clicked on one of the EditText fields)
Then show the imageView again when the user have unfocused the EditText field or the keyboard is not visible anymore.
I have tried tons of different ways to do this. But nothing really works as intended. Do you guys have any idea how i could achieve this
Have you tried to detect if the keyboard is opened ? How do I Detect if Software Keyboard is Visible on Android Device?
Make debug and when is opened try to hide image . imageview.setvisibility (GONE)
if it does not work you can try to change layout
Make 2 layouts and switch visibility if the keyboard is open /closed
You can add a OnFocusChangeListener to the EditText,when you click the EditText,it will get focus,and then you can hide the ImageView.
<activity android:name="SearchResultsActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"/>
adjustPan:
The activity’s main window is not resized to make room for the soft keyboard. Rather, the contents of the window are automatically panned so that the current focus is never obscured by the keyboard and users can always see what they are typing. This is generally less desirable than resizing, because the user may need to close the soft keyboard to get at and interact with obscured parts of the window.
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You can do one thing, place UIView-> UIImageView -> UITextfield1-> UITextField2.Handle the UIImageView hiding state in textfield delegates which are Begin and End editing delegate methods
In my Android application running in a XOOM device, when I click in an Edittext the keyboard opens and hides the Actionbar. I don't want this to happen, how can I solve this? This is done by the Google Contacts app for the tablet for example.
EDIT:
I have several edittexts in which the user needs fo fill. At first, when the user clicked on one edittext on the bottom, the keyboard showed up and hide the edittext in which the user was typing, so he couldn't see what he was typing. I found it really bad, and to solve it I just added to the manifest: android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan"
But after that, now the screen adjust itselfs and hides the action bar.
The Google Contacts app does the same, but it magically doesn't hide the Action bar. How do they do it?
Use adjustResize instead of adjustPan. The framework will always try to keep the focused element on-screen by scrolling any parent views if necessary.
If your EditText field is not nested in some sort of scrolling container such as a ScrollView then your layout may be too tall to completely display when the keyboard resizes your activity. Try wrapping your form's layout in a ScrollView. This will also allow your app's content to scroll if it is running on a smaller screen device where it may have similar issues.
In my application, I am showing/hiding the keyboard to allow the user to manipulate a custom widget. There is no EditText that has focus.
The problem I am having is that I want the layout to adjust in size when the keyboard shows. This is normally done by adding android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" to the activity tag in the manifest. This does work when the device (currently the 7in Galaxy Tab running 2.2) is in portrait mode but when rotated to landscape, the layout does not adjust size and the keyboard hides half the screen.
Now, I noticed that if instead I use an EditView that has android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi", the layout resizes appropriately. Is there any way to achieve the same effect on a keyboard displayed through a window token?
Adding a hidden EditView to the screen is not ideal since it will change the implementation rather drastically.
For reference, here is the code I use to show the keyboard within the custom widget.
mInputMethod = (InputMethodManager)getContext().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
mInputMethod.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.HIDE_IMPLICIT_ONLY);
requestFocus();
setOnKeyListener(this);
and to hide.
mInputMethod.hideSoftInputFromWindow(getWindowToken(), 0);
setOnKeyListener(null);
As shown in the landscape images here: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/updating-applications-for-on-screen.html .
I don't necessarily need to do the fullscreen thing, but my issue is that the EditText is below the soft keyboard and I cant figure out how to get the whole thing to display above it. Its a note field, and fills whatever open space there is from the end of my other fields to the bottom of the screen. Currently when I select the note, the screen moves up just enough to see the top of the note field, but this is not good enough. I want the top of the note field to move up to the top of the screen, to maximize what the user sees while they are editing the field.
My softInputMode in the manifest is adjustPan, but changing these settings has not done anything for me.
You need to add a ScrollView around the view to make it slide and change adjustPan to adjustResize (adjustPan is normally not recommended) to the activity on the manifest.
In my android application, I have an EditText. When I click in this field, the soft keyboard appears, expanding from the bottom of the screen. It seems to actually modify my layout, pushing contents upwards. When I dismiss the keypad, it retracts, and I see my layout re-expand to take up the space it previously occupied.
Is there a way to get the keyboard to simply appear "on top" of my layout, so that I don't get this somewhat unpleasant relayout animation? The EditText is pinned to the very top of the screen, so I don't have to worry about the keypad hiding it.
Thanks
By default, Android should be using "Pan and Scan", which would work more or less how you described. The keyboard is displayed over your view, and you can scroll your view in the background. If you override the windowInputMode for you Activity, or Android determines that your Activity is resizable (because of the presence of a resizable field... ListView, ScrollViews, etc), it may resize your view instead, and it sounds like that's what you're running into. To force it to Pan and Scan try adding:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
as an attribute to the Activity element in your xml layout.
There's a third option as well. You can specify that when an EditText is selected it will be edited in full screen mode. The other controls in your view will be hidden, the user will be presented with just the keyboard, an EditText control, and optionally some other limited controls. If your EditText doesn't require a lot of context from other elements of your view, it may prevent a cleaner user interface. For more details, see: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/updating-applications-for-on-screen.html
Add:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
to your activity attr in manifest.xml. Hope it will help.
This questions seems to state a resize is not desirable. I had the same issue, but adding
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing"
to the manifest file instead solved my problem.