android: using adjustPan and without scrolling the title bar - android

I'm using android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" in my manifest.xml.
It's doing me the job just fine but there is something retarded about it.
when i focus an EditText view that's, say in the bottom half of the screen, the title bar is also scrolled with the content of the activity.
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all i want is to freeze/float the title bar in place when scrolling the content. just like this:
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and no, I don't want to use adjustResize It overlaps views on top of each other
any help is greatly appreciated, been looking for the answer for a long time.

Found it!
Simply changing the root view in the layout xml file to a ScrollView does the job.
I don't even need to specify android:windowSoftInputMode
Of course I have to have everything else in a single layout as the child of the ScrollView
Edit
your .xml file should look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
... >
<LinearLayout> // could be any other layout but linear works well here
//insert all other views of the activity here
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

The answer suggested by Ace is essentially what is needed. My answer just aims to make things a little clearer.
There are two things you need to do. Firstly in the Manifest set the following on the activity. android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
Then, in the activity's layout you'll want to set a ScrollView beneath the Toolbar/Title Bar, as shown in the code below.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="#+id/toolbar"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
.../>
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
...>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
...>
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>
From what I understand, here's how it works.
When you open the soft keyboard on your device, it will 'adjustResize' the layout of the activity. As the layout sits in a ScrollView, this is the part which is resized, and made smaller. Therefore the Toolbar/Titlebar will stay in place and the layout in the ScrollView will be scrollable when the keyboard is shown.

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I have a situation where I need a scrollview to have a background image that shouldn't scroll along with it's parent when moving. Before any of you suggest me the links for setting background image and this that, I have already tried and it's not working.
The whole story goes like: I have an activity with fragments which have their own backgrounds with some input fields. When focusing over input fields, keyboard appears and background image squeezes. For that I put an image on background of scrollview that fixed my issue of squeezing background but raised another concern that background Image should stay static while scrolling the parent scrollview.
The second solution any of you may suggest is setting background of my activity rather playing with scrollview. That's right, but for that I had to make a style element with background of theme which appears odd while transitioning different fragments plus it adds overhead when I have a lot of code and fragments to move forward and back.
That's the point where I am stuck. I have gone through links below, if you just need to know that I tried it or not.
link1
link2
link3
... and so on
below is the layout I am using for my fragments (it's all being done programmatically)
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/top_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal" >
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:scrollbars="none" >
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/backgroundView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:contentDescription="#string/app_name"
android:scaleType="fitXY" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/parent_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical" >
</LinearLayout>
</FrameLayout>
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
So if you guys have any better solution keeping in mind the situation I have, will be warmly welcomed. Thank you
None of the above works for me with some reason but this things works.
getWindow().setBackgroundDrawableResource(R.mipmap.img_reg_bg);
put it in oncreate method hope it will help.
If I guess right you try to fix your hotfix to get it working propperly. If I'm right you sould go back to scratch and do it without your scrollview.
If you have a look at following Link:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#wsoft
you'll see softkeyboard mode can be adjusted. "adjustPan" should solve your problem.
"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.
Add someimgage to your drawable folderes, like drawable-mdpi, drawable-hdpi.
In your LinearLayout "#+id/top_layout" add attribute:
android:background="#drawable/someimage"

Layout not pushed up when Soft keyboard appears

I have a fragment of this given layout hierarchy,
Inside the view pager I have a Edit text. When keyboard appears to type in the text to EditText the entire layout is not pushed up. Instead the contents inside ViewPager is pushed up. I want the entire content inside the Outer Linear Layout to be pushed up when keyboard appears.
How can I achieve this?
Thanks.
Put your Parent LinearLayout inside a scrollview. This fixed my issue.
put your base layout inside the ScrollView
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/scrollView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/llPlayersName"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
// do here the layout work
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
remember scrollView cannon be used as the base layout, so you have to put the scrollView inside the LinearLayout or RelativeLayout.
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<activity ...
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan">

Status bar always on screen

Good day (or evening, or night)
I'm developing an app for android and I'm very curious about one thing. I have an activity, where user chats with another, like "im" chat. There are an EditText on the bottom and some kind of actionbar on the top. What I need is when user enters a message and the software keyboard is on screen, my activity should move up, but the actionbar should still be "glued" to the top of the screen, because it has some valuable controls on it.
Again, that's not an ActionBar, but just a 48dp height layout in a parent vertical linear layout. So I need to know is there an easy way to prevent it from moving to the top, when the layout moves off the screen.
I tried to put everything in a FrameLayout and put this bar on top of it, but on keyboard opens it goes off the screen too...
On you Activity at AndroidManifest you should put this: android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
Use something like this:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<com.myapp.MyActionBar
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="48dp"/>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/mylayout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1dp"/>
<!-- Add your edittext and button -->
</LinearLayout>
This will make sure the actionbar and edittext + button are allways on screen, and the mylayout takes up the rest of the screen. When your keyboard is shown, the mylayout will shrink.
Try adding android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" to your activity in the manifest. This tells Android to completely resize your layout when the keyboard comes up, rather than pan it. Note that if there isn't enough room for the entire layout this still won't work. But you ought to be able to make it work if your top level layout is a RelativeLayout, with the edit text set to align bottom, the top bar to align top, and the middle section to fill_parent and be above the edit text and below the bar.
use a RelativeLayout as your base Layout and add android:layout_alignParentTop="true" to your action bar to keep it up
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/action_bar_layout"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="48dp"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/text_view"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</RelativeLayout>

Scrollable layout in Android

I have a registration form in a LinearLayout as shown below:
When emulator screen is in it's default position it is working fine. But when I rotate the emulator screen it only displays the elements which are fit to screen and remaining are wrap up. As shown in below screen:
Now I want to make this layout scrollable but not getting the idea. Any help will be highly appreciated.
Try putting your LinearLayout inside an ScrollView like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/menu_ll"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"></LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
I simply added this code in my activity of AndroidManifest.xml
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize"

How does Android determine whether to move the layout up when showing the softkeyboard?

How does Android determine whether to move the layout up when showing the softkeyboard?
Note: I am aware that the activity property android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|adjustResize|adjustUnspecified"
exists, as described here http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#wsoft
, but in my case it doesn't seem to have any effect. This is my problem:
I have two activities, pretty much the same layout, but the first one is using a ListView that holds a list of buttons. The second activity holds a scrollview with buttons.
The rest is the same, same number of buttons, same height of elements, etc.
Now, when I press the search button to open the search input bar, in my first activity, the entire layouts gets moved up.
While on the second activity, the layout is not being moved up but the softkeyboard just displays on top of it. This is actually how I want it to behave. How can I achieve the same with my activity that's using the ListView?
In my manifest, initially I didn't specify any android:windowSoftInputMode attribute, but even if I do, it doesn't make any difference; I tried all three values (adjustPan, adjustResize, adjustUndefined, without any difference).
This is my layout:
1) http://pastebin.com/5zzVxjbK
2) http://pastebin.com/KFtPuHvP
Interestingly though: when I set my ListView visibility in my layout 1 (left) to View.INVISIBLE, then the layout doesn not get moved up!
I can achieve this with a RelativeLayout and setting android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" like so:
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" >
<include android:id="#+id/Header" layout="#layout/header"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" />
<ListView android:id="#+id/android:list" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="#id/Header"
android:layout_above="#+id/Footer" />
<include android:id="#id/Footer" layout="#layout/footer"
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
You may be able to achive this by setting the footer gravity (or layout_gravity) to "bottom", if you want to keep the LinearLayout, but I am not sure.

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