I'm having a small user experience issue in my app;
When changing from landscape to portrait (or portrait to landscape) with the Soft Keyboard open, the keyboard hides.
What I want to do is to stop the keyboard hiding on orientation change.
(Edit - I don't want to force the keyboard open, if the keyboard was hidden before the orientation change, I want it to stay hidden - I want to retain the keyboards open/closed state).
I've looked around for an answer and it seems adding stateUnchanged to the windowSoftInputMode options in the manifest for the Activity is the correct way to solve this (as described in the android documentation:
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateUnchanged|adjustResize"
The problem is this seems to have absolutely no effect.
Does anybody know of any caveats to this functionality? Does it perhaps not work if the EditText which is focused is in a Fragment?
Add this to your code and it will work :
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
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When device is rotated from portrait to landscape, keyboard keeps popping up. This happens without being any EditText on the screen. I tested with several devices and it happens only on Samsung devices. Is there a way to prevent keyboard pop ups?
You can use the following 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);
Tested.
Are you tried this one in your manifest fileandroid:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
Add to root element android:focusableInTouchMode="true" attribute.
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.
regards! :)
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
Using the method shown in this thread - How to check visibility of software keyboard in Android?
I am able to detect keyboard hide when in portrait mode or in landscape mode where the keyboard is not in fullscreen. If keyboard in landscape mode is fullscreen then, the layout changes are not triggered and hence i cannot detect it in the OnGlobalLayoutListener !
Please help me with this? Is there no simple way to detect keyboard hide?
NOTE: I cannot afford to change anything in the manifest file. It should all be done through code dynamically!
Thanks!
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.
I am enabling orientation change in focusChangeListener of an edittext in my app.
It is working fine, but the issue is if the user flips the keyboard to landscape mode keyboard disappears.
It will come up only if user tap on edittext again or change orientation to portrait mode.
I need to display keyboard in landscape mode without touching the edittext.
Please help me.
Generally, its a bad idea to mess with the default IME behavior because there are devices out there with hardware keyboards.
Now, that you have been warned, listen for the orientation change and if the keyboard was visible before the change and there is no hardware keyboard on the device, show the keyboard manually.
Try using android:configChanges="orientation" into your manifest class.
<activity
android:name=".classname"
android:configChanges="keyboardHidden|orientation"
>
if works then accept it.