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I want to create a view above the soft keyboard

I am developing a Android Soft Keyboard. I want to create a layout above the Soft Keyboard. Whenever keyboard show on the screen the layout must visible.
You can easily understand my idea by seeing this image.

As mentioned by Jawad Ahmend in the comments, it's possible to attach the layout to the top of the keyboard by attaching it to the parent bottom using ConstraintLayout. You'd essentially need to do the following steps:
Set the windowSoftInputMode as adjustResize for your activity in the manifest.
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar">
Set your layout visibility to gone and add a layout constraint attaching it's bottom to the bottom of the parent.
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/layout_B"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:visibility="gone">
Next, you need to monitor the soft keyboard state. To keep this short, let's just use the KeyboardVisibilityEvent library. Add the following line to your app's build.gradle and sync it.
implementation 'net.yslibrary.keyboardvisibilityevent:keyboardvisibilityevent:2.3.0'
Add a keyboard listener in your activity to set your layout_B to become visible when the keyboard opens and you're done.
KeyboardVisibilityEvent.setEventListener(this) { keyboardIsOpen ->
layout_B.visibility = if (keyboardIsOpen) {
View.VISIBLE
} else {
View.GONE
}
}

If you're writing the keyboard, its easy. Just override onCreateInputView to return the view you want. This can easily be a linear layout with your extra views and the keyboard itself in it.
The bigger problem I see is you have an EditText in there. That's not going to work. Tapping on the EditText is going to break the InputConnection to the actual app and cause... unknown weird behavior. I'm not even sure if the behavior will be defined across different OS versions. It may cause the keyboard to immediately hide. It may cause the keyboard to just stop working at all. The OS isn't meant for that.

how to move the entair screen up when keyboard enabled?

I want to scroll up the entair screen up when keyboard opened like below.How to do that?
https://www.screencast.com/t/34JwVngLdYbU

Apply android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize" with activity tag in manifest file.

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize"
and put complete layout in LinearLayout and ScrollView & define
layout_height="0dp"
layout_weight="1"
Note: No view have parameter layout_height="match_parent"

I had also same issue just adding a single line to my AndroidManifest file's activity.
<activity
android:name=".activities.YOURACTIVITY"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateVisible"/>
If you want keyboard should appear with start Activity then use stateVisible otherwise use stateHidden.
Here the most important value is the adjustResize. This will shift the whole UI up to give room for the softkeyboard.

adjustResize not happening

My manifest file looks like
<activity
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:icon="#drawable/ew_logo"
android:theme="#style/AppTheme"
android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden|orientation|screenLayout|screenSize|smallestScreenSize"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
android:name="activity.MainActivity">
</activity>
My Mainactivity contains custom toolbar and Edittext in vertical orientation. When keyboard popouts in HTC(landscape mode), am able to see only edittext not toolbar. I want the view like adjustresize not adjust pane.

Try this. mEditText.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI);
You can also do it from the xml file using
android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi"
From the documentation
For input methods that may be fullscreen, often when in landscape mode, this allows them to be smaller and let part of the application be shown behind.

Whats the activity layout you're using? you should wrap it with scrollview for adjustResize to work.

moving edit text along with soft keyboard android

I am having an comment edit text in my application. The edit text is aligned at the bottom of the screen. when edit text is focused i want to move edit text alone with soft keyboard without changing other views in layout similar to comment edit box in facebook. I tried adjustpan in manifest but it moves all views up with soft keyboard. adjustresize in manifest hides some view.please provide suggestions.

Try like this inside your Android manifest file..
<activity name="YourActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize">
</activity>
or
<activity name="YourActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan">
</activity>
Please also read this for ref/Clarity

Add
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
in your AndroidManifest file (in activity property)

dialog.getWindow().
setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_VISIBLE);
Its also working with out manifest file entry

Android soft keyboard covers EditText field

Is there a way to make the screen scroll to allow the text field to be seen?

I had same issues. Try following code:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
add it to your manifest.xml in the activity tag of the activity that holds the input. example:
<activity
android:name=".Activities.InputsActivity"
...
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
/>

Are you asking how to control what is visible when the soft keyboard opens? You might want to play with the windowSoftInputMode. See developer docs for more discussion.

I had the same issue where the softkeyboard was on top of the EditText views which were placed on the bottom of the screen. I was able to find a solution by adding a single line to my AndroidManifest.xml file's relevant activity.
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateHidden"
This is how the whole activity tag looks like:
<activity
android:name="com.my.MainActivity"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:label="#string/title_activity_main"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateHidden" >
</activity>
Here the most important value is the adjustResize. This will shift the whole UI up to give room for the softkeyboard.

Why not try to add a ScrollView to wrap whatever it is you want to scroll. Here is how I have done it, where I actually leave a header on top which does not scroll, while the dialog widgets (in particular the EditTexts) scroll when you open soft keypad.
<LinearLayout android:id="#+id/HeaderLayout" >
<!-- Here add a header or whatever will not be scrolled. -->
</LinearLayout>
<ScrollView android:id="#+id/MainForm" >
<!-- Here add your edittexts or whatever will scroll. -->
</ScrollView>
I would typically have a LinearLayout inside the ScrollView, but that is up to you. Also, setting Scrollbar style to outsideInset helps, at least on my devices.

All you need to do is
android:isScrollContainer="true"
source: http://www.davidwparker.com/2011/08/25/android-fixing-window-resize-and-scrolling/

Sorry for reviving an old thread but no one mentioned setting android:imeOptions="flagNoFullscreen" in your EditText element

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
android:isScrollContainer="true"
works for android EditText, while it not works for webview or xwalkview. When soft keyboard hide the input in webview or xwalkview you have use android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

I believe that you can make it scroll by using the trackball, which might be achieved programmatically through selection methods eventually, but it's just an idea. I know that the trackball method typically works, but as for the exact way to do this and make it work from code, I do not sure.
Hope that helps.

add this single line to your relative activity where key board cover edit text.inside onCreat()method of activity.
getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE | WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_RESIZE);

just add
android:gravity="bottom" android:paddingBottom="10dp"
change paddingBottom according to your size of edittext

I know this is old but none of the above solutions worked for me. After extensive debugging, I figured out the issue.
The solution is setting the android:windowTranslucentStatus attribute to false in my styles.xml

If EditText Field is been covered by the KeyBoard Use the following code:
EditText= findViewById(R.id.edittext)
EditText?.getParent()?.requestChildFocus(EditText,EditText)
If you want the Cursor to be in the Focused EditText than use EditText.requestFocus() after the EditText?.getParent()?.requestChildFocus(EditText,EditText) which helps to get the focus and Cursor in the Focused EditText.

The above solution work perfectly but if you are using Fullscreen activity(translucent status bar) then these solutions might not work.
so for fullscreen use this code inside your onCreate function on your Activity.
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
Window w = getWindow();
w.setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_IN_SCREEN , WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_IN_SCREEN );
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION, WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_STATUS_BAR);
}
Example:
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
Window w = getWindow();
w.setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_IN_SCREEN , WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_LAYOUT_IN_SCREEN );
getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_NAVIGATION, WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_STATUS_BAR);
}
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

Edit your AndroidManifest.xml
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
Add this to your root view of Layout file.
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
That's all.

I had the same issue and searching the people said to add adjustPan, while in my case adjustResize worked.
<activity
android:name=".YOUR.ACTIVITY"
...
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
/>