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EditText disappears on Android Marshmallow 6.0 devices

This is how my xml layout file in IDE looks like:
It looks like that on every device BUT Marshmallow ones, which ended up looking like this:
As you can see, the password EditText and Remember CheckBox disappeared without a trace, yet I still can declare them in the class file normally.
This is my xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:id="#+id/activity_log_in"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
tools:context="my.app.LogInActivity">
<!-- Dummy item to prevent AutoCompleteTextView from receiving focus -->
<LinearLayout
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:layout_width="0px"
android:layout_height="0px"
android:id="#+id/linearLayout5"
android:orientation="horizontal" />
<!-- :nextFocusUp and :nextFocusLeft have been set to the id of this component
to prevent the dummy from receiving focus again -->
<AutoCompleteTextView android:id="#+id/autotext"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:nextFocusUp="#id/autotext"
android:visibility="invisible"
android:nextFocusLeft="#id/autotext"
android:textSize="15sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtname"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#+id/txt_customer"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/txt_customer"
android:text="Name"
android:textSize="14sp" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/txt_customer"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_below="#+id/autotext"
android:layout_toEndOf="#+id/bt_exit"
android:ems="10"
android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi"
android:inputType="textPersonName"
android:maxLength="100"
android:textSize="15sp" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/txt_password"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/txt_customer"
android:ems="10"
android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi"
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:maxLength="100"
android:textSize="15sp" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignLeft="#+id/txtname"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/txtname"
android:layout_below="#+id/txt_customer"
android:layout_marginTop="25dp"
android:text="Pasword"
android:textSize="14sp" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/bt_login"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:text="LogIn"
android:textColor="#000000" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/bt_exit"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_toEndOf="#+id/linearLayout5"
android:text="Quit"
android:textColor="#000000" />
<CheckBox
android:id="#+id/check_remember"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignStart="#+id/txt_password"
android:layout_below="#+id/txt_password"
android:text="Remember" />
<TextView
android:id="#+id/textView3"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#+id/linearLayout5"
android:layout_toEndOf="#+id/linearLayout5"
android:text="Log In" />
The Name EditText and Password EditText are the same yet only the Password one disappears on Marshmallow 6.0 devices. I have already tried to change theme, Build Target, position but it's still the same. What had go wrong?
EDIT #1:This question mentioned "messy code" and it was solved by "cleaning up" the code. I am using RelativeLayout as parent like him, but changing to LinearLayout isn't viable.
EDIT #2: I tried to preset a value just to login, and it worked normally like I just typed it in manually. Inside layouts file are the same: Only one EditText appears, the rest (EditText, CheckBox, RadioButtons) disappear. What is going on?? Example:
On Marshmallow:

Solved the disappearing bug. From this SO answer which leads me to this Google issue. I have to delete android:layout_alignBaseline attribute and they will render fine.

Software keyboard move editTexts for android

I'm trying to get the editTexts, and sign in button to move up when the software keyboard is out however I want the background to not be compressed(I'm going to add an image soon). I have the TextView(Login), two EditTexts(email and password) and signin button in a ScrollView because I thought that might help however I have not be able to figure anything out.
http://i.imgur.com/vlYifc6.png
http://i.imgur.com/vlYifc6.png
This is the xml
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/activity_vertical_margin" tools:context=".MainActivity">
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/scrollView"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" >
<LinearLayout
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:gravity="center"
android:id="#+id/textLayout">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge"
android:text="Login"
android:id="#+id/loginView"
android:textSize="22dp"
android:layout_above="#+id/textLayout"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/emailTextfield"
android:inputType="textEmailAddress"
android:background="#android:drawable/edit_text"
android:textColor="#android:color/primary_text_light"
android:text="andresc1305#yahoo.com"
android:hint="Email" />
<EditText
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:inputType="textPassword"
android:hint="Password"
android:text="Andres123"
android:background="#android:drawable/edit_text"
android:textColor="#android:color/primary_text_light"
android:ems="10"
android:id="#+id/passwordTextfield" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="SIGN IN"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:textSize="24dp"
android:id="#+id/signinButton"
android:layout_below="#+id/textLayout"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:onClick="onSigninClick"/>
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Forgot your password?"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:textSize="14dp"
android:id="#+id/forgotButton"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
android:onClick="onPasswordRecoverClick"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="Register"
android:background="#android:color/transparent"
android:textSize="14dp"
android:id="#+id/registerButton"
android:layout_alignTop="#+id/forgotButton"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentEnd="true"
android:onClick="onRegisterClick"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Look at this answer. In short, your problem can most likely be solved by setting the following in your AndroidManifest.xml inside the relevant activity or application element:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

#PPartisan
This is without:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
http://i.imgur.com/tbNioU2.png
This is with:
http://i.imgur.com/7ZePHjS.png
Beside the compression you can see my "Forgot your password" and "Register" buttons but I have those outside my ScrollView in the XML. Is there a way to scroll the LinearLayout (which contains the Login(TextView, email(EditText), password(EditText), and Signin(button) up when the software keyboard comes up?
The answer by zmilojko seems like what I want to do but he only says to add the ScrollView and not what to do after that has been added. Is there something I can place in the to make it move up when the software keyboard comes up?

see this thread, i think it can help you
layout of the screen moves up when keyboard is displayed
or just try to put this in your xml:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
or this
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing"
Seems like it works different in each case.

Make a ScrollView scroll to the bottom when the soft keyboard appears in Android?

So I am making a texting app just to mess around with the different things in android programming and have yet to run into a problem that I can't find the answer for online. I have tried several different answers from this site and other android programming forums and not one of them has worked every time. There are some examples that work every other time, whereas other examples will work only once. This is the only thing left in the app that I need to figure out for UI functionality.
I have an XML layout file as such:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rlActionBar2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="44dp" >
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rlAddContact"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="44dp"
android:layout_below="#+id/rlActionBar2"
android:background="#drawable/new_message_background"
android:padding="0dp" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/tvTo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
android:text="#string/text_to"
android:textColor="#7F7F7F"
android:textSize="17sp" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/txtContact"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#id/tvTo"
android:layout_marginLeft="6dp"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/btnAddContact"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/tvTo"
android:background="#00000000"
android:hint="#string/contact_name"
android:inputType="textPersonName"
android:maxLines="1"
android:textColor="#000000"
android:textSize="16sp" >
</EditText>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnAddContact"
android:layout_width="28.5dp"
android:layout_height="28.5dp"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="3dp"
android:layout_marginRight="3dp"
android:background="#drawable/add_button"
android:padding="0dp" />
</RelativeLayout>
<ScrollView
android:id="#+id/svMessageView"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_above="#+id/rlNewMessage"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_below="#id/rlAddContact"
android:background="#DBE2ED" >
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/llMessages"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#DBE2ED"
android:isScrollContainer="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingTop="11dp" >
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/rlNewMessage"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:background="#drawable/messagebar_background"
android:gravity="bottom"
android:padding="0dp" >
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnAttatchment"
android:layout_width="26dp"
android:layout_height="26dp"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/txtMessageBox"
android:layout_marginLeft="6dp"
android:background="#drawable/camera_icon" />
<EditText
android:id="#+id/txtMessageBox"
android:layout_width="253dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginBottom="6dp"
android:layout_marginLeft="6dp"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/btnAttatchment"
android:background="#drawable/messagebox_background"
android:hint="#string/app_name"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:maxLines="6"
android:minHeight="26dp"
android:textSize="17sp" >
</EditText>
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnSend"
android:layout_width="58dp"
android:layout_height="26dp"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/txtMessageBox"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_marginRight="6dp"
android:background="#drawable/send_button"
android:text="#string/send_button"
android:textAlignment="center"
android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
android:textSize="14sp"
android:textStyle="bold" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
My problem is getting the ScrollView svMessageView to automatically scroll to the bottom every time the soft keyboard comes onto the screen for the user to type. The RelativeLayout rlNewMessage moves up when the keyboard appears, and the bottom of svMessageView is set to stick to the top of rlNewMessage and that works, but I can't get the svMessageView to scroll to the bottom by itself.
Images:
After soft keyboard loads (not what I want): http://imgur.com/8Kptge3
After soft keyboard loads (what I want): http://imgur.com/BcDcFPY
If more information is needed for you to figure out the problem let me know and I will post it asap.

I did not test it, but you may try scrollView.fullScroll(View.FOCUS_DOWN); on EditText touch listener perhaps.

Add this in your Manifest.xml for Activity and feed me back
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing"

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 stays hidden behind the keyboard

Before writing this question I have read through the following answers/articles:
Android soft keyboard covers edittext field
Android keyboard obscures EditText
http://developer.android.com/resources/articles/on-screen-inputs.html
Soft Keyboard Overlapping with EditText Field
The Android soft keyboard is set by default to pan which means it will keep all the editable regions above the keyboard. However it does not pan enough. When I run it and press the edittext that is close to the bottom of the screen, the keyboard comes up and edittext is moved up but not enough to be able to see what is being typed in it. I have used/tried the following:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" in the manifest of the Activity. This made no difference. I have also tried putting values of adjustUnspecified and adjustResize too. None of them works.
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" /> in the manifest file. My application is targetted for sdk 2.1 and above. Even though, I tried it and did not work.
Using a ScrollView. Does not work either.
Is there a way to manually manage how much "panning" does a keyboard do when a specific edittext is pressed.
Below is my xml file.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#ffffff">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/header"
android:layout_width="320dip"
android:layout_height="86dip"
android:background="#drawable/header_bg">
</ImageView>
<ImageView
android:layout_width="320dip"
android:layout_height="200dip"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:background="#drawable/bg1_btm">
</ImageView>
<TextView android:text="Hostname"
android:id="#+id/lbl_hostname"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/header"/>
<TextView android:text="(Current)"
android:id="#+id/lbl_hostname_current"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/lbl_hostname"
android:layout_below="#id/header" />
<EditText android:text="EditText"
android:id="#+id/editText_hostname"
android:layout_below="#id/lbl_hostname"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:maxLength="25">
</EditText>
<TextView android:text="Registration URL"
android:id="#+id/lbl_registration"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/editText_hostname" />
<TextView android:text="(Current)"
android:id="#+id/lbl_registration_current"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/editText_hostname"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/lbl_registration" />
<TextView android:text="http://"
android:id="#+id/lbl_url_prefiz"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/lbl_registration"
android:paddingTop="10dip" />
<EditText android:text="EditText"
android:id="#+id/editText_registration"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_toRightOf ="#id/lbl_url_prefiz"
android:layout_below="#id/lbl_registration">
</EditText>
<TextView android:text="Chat"
android:id="#+id/lbl_chat"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/editText_registration"/>
<TextView android:text="(Current)"
android:id="#+id/lbl_chat_current"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/editText_registration"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/lbl_chat"/>
<EditText android:text="EditText"
android:id="#+id/editText_chat"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/lbl_chat">
</EditText>
<TextView android:text="SSID"
android:id="#+id/lbl_ssid"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/editText_chat" />
<TextView android:text="(Current)"
android:id="#+id/lbl_ssid_current"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/editText_chat"
android:layout_toRightOf="#id/lbl_ssid"
/>
<EditText android:text="EditText"
android:id="#+id/editText_ssid"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/lbl_ssid"
android:maxLines="1"
android:inputType="text"
android:layout_marginBottom="25dip">
</EditText>
<Button android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/ButtonSave"
android:text="Save"
android:layout_below="#id/editText_ssid"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true">
</Button>
<Button android:text="Continue"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:id="#+id/ButtonContinue"
android:layout_below="#id/editText_ssid"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true">
</Button>
</RelativeLayout>

Try
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
worked fine for me :)

Try to set your all controls layout heights and widths using fill_parent or match_parent...instead of using hard coded values...
also remove this if you are using this as it might be pushing your app downwards...
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_NO_LIMITS);
hope it works...