When you activate an editText and your application is in landscape mode your view will change and all you see is a white screen and your textbox.
I have lots of text boxes the user has to fill with information.
Since the white area is stretched to the full width and height of your screen this can be very confusing. You don't know which textbox is now activated.
Thats why I want to add a textlabel to each portrait view of the editText box.
How could this be done?
Edit:
android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi"
is not a solution because the softkeyboard hides some editText boxes.
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I have a horizontal only, full screen activity in my android app. In this activity, I need to disable full screen keyboard in some EditText elements so that the user can see the EditText while typing.
I disabled the full screen keyboard by adding following to EditText xml.
android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi"
When I touch the EditText for the fist time to enter text into it, the screen gets pulled up (keyboard comes up from bottom) so that EditText is visible while typing. After entering text and closing the keyboard, while the EditText is still having focus, if I touched it again to do some correction to the text entered, it doesn't get pulled up as it did before (Edit text is covered by keyboard). So I cannot see what is in the text box while typing. I'm not sure whether this is the default behavior since user has no idea what he is typing in this situation.
Is there a some way to get the screen to always pull up so it is visible?
use edittext in ScrollView and android:fillViewport="true" on the ScrollView. That's the better solution.
I have EditText with white text and black background.
When i turn the device in landscape orientation EditText is almost hidden by another controls and special dedicated window is opened for editing. The problem is that it uses white background and white text is invisible on it. How can it be fixed?
You could add android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" to your EditText XML-tag. This will prevent the EditText to expand in landscape-mode and should preserve the background color.
See the documentation for imeOptions
I have an app with a EditText in the bottom of the screen
when im writing into this editText the keyboard opens and covers half of the screen so i see only the bottom half of my screen(so far so good cause the editText is in this half)
now when i press the text the android text selection menu opens up in the top of the screen so
no i see only the top half of the screen and i cant see my EditText
can i change the selection tool or make it float or change the position of it?
Include these two lines in your edittext layout file.
android:freezesText="true"
android:gravity="top"
I am having EditText in my LinearLayout. When i am typing text in portrait mode keyboard displays fine but when i changed to landscape mode , only i can editext box and a button on right side of it, that looking really bad.
Just i want to look the keyboard same in both modes.
How i achieve that??
Problem is: Keyboard is filling the entire screen am not able to see other views in the screen in landscape when i want to type text..
Thanks
In layout at landscape, you can set android:imeOptions="actionDone|flagNoExtractUi" for edittext
whenever I click on the EditText, the screen readjusts and the edittext-view moves up. But this is not enough and the soft-keyboard still covers the view to not show what a user typing.
My layout is as follows:
A listview occupying 65% of screen height, followed by an editetxt view and a button
LISTVIEW
______________________________
EDITTEXT |BUTTON
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My activity has the following flag set android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden|adjustPan"
adjustPan forces the soft keyboard to appear on top of your layout, blocking anything at the bottom. You're going to want to use adjust resize instead, which will move up your EditText and Button, and shrink the ListView. If, in landscape mode, the ListView is shrunk to the point of being unusable/pointless, consider using a fullscreen IME keyboard.
Read about something like that just recently. Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.vogella.de/blog/2010/10/25/android-windowsoftinputmode/