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Softkeyboard hides elements of my layout that I want to be visibles

I've got a layout that looks like first image and when I open the softkeyboard looks like the second image, but I want it how it seems on third image:
I read a lot about adjustpan and adjustresize on the manifest but nothing works, the xml structure is:
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/blanco"
android:gravity="top"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:weightSum="10" >
<!-- LOGO -->
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/logo"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="3.7"
android:background="#color/green_logo"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="center"
android:paddingTop="65dp" >
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/logo_registro"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:src="#drawable/logo_registro" />
</LinearLayout>
<FrameLayout
android:id="#+id/contentFragment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="6.3" >
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
First part is the green part with the app logo and inside the FrameLayout I put Fragments that contains simple LinearLayouts or RelativeLayouts with parts of my Login forms.

Put this on your Manifest, inside the activity
<activity android:name=".YourActivity"
android:configChanges="keyboard|keyboardHidden"></activity>

Set your windowSoftInputMode in your manifest for this activity to be adjustResize. THere are 3 possible settings for this- nothing, resize (shrinks your app to fit the remaining space), and pan (scrolls your app so the focused field remains on screen).

Just Add the empty scrollview and it will work
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
</ScrollView>

Adding layout to a scrollview gets eaten up

I have a layout something like this:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginBottom="10dp"
android:background="#ff303f"
android:id="#+id/layout">
<ImageView
android:id="#+id/picture"
android:layout_width="300dp"
android:layout_height="300dp"
android:layout_centerInParent="true"/>
<Button
android:id="#+id/cancel"
android:layout_width="45dp"
android:layout_height="45dp"
android:layout_alignRight="#id/picture"
android:background="#drawable/cross_out"/>
</RelativeLayout>
I inflate it using the usual layout inflator service, set up some functionality to the button and an image to the imageview (all images are of same size and aspect ratio).
After that, I add this view to my fragment's layout which is nothing but a ScrollView which is a parent, it has a child linear layout that I call 'map' and simply add it to the map.
Expected : The added layouts should get added properly and I can scroll through it.
Actual : If more than 2 are added, the first one gets eaten up. I can see it half or sometimes it is completely eaten up. :\
Any idea whats going on here? Thanks a lot for your time.
EDIT:
Here's the layout file I add the inflated layout into:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/scrollView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#f6ff45">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/map"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#43ff44"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp">
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
I also forgot to mention that after adding 3 or more of these layouts, I realized there's unnecessary empty space in the end. :\

If you have some android:layout_gravity or gravity property in your ScrollView, that may be the reason. Try deleting it, or make it center_horizontal.

Try this code for your layout file;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/scrollView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#f6ff45">
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/map"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#43ff44"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_margin="10dp"
android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_marginTop="15dp">
</LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>
As I mentioned before, android:layout_gravity="center"in this LinearLayout causes this problem. Because it doesn't only horizontally center but also verticelly center the contents. It means when they are longer than the available height, the center part will appear. I only changed it into android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal" and the problem is fixed.

ScrollView does not work with ActionBar

ScrollView does not work, I have a layout with some components like EditText, and when I'm typing something EditText keyboard rises, and along the component, however it appears above the other, the ScrollView does not respond to their function.
Already googled, and found some similar problems, but none solved my problem.
Below my layout.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/ScrollView01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:scrollbars="none" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:clickable="false"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:padding="5dp" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtDescricaoDocumento"
android:layout_width="150dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignBaseline="#+id/edtDescricaoDocumento"
android:layout_alignBottom="#+id/edtDescricaoDocumento"
android:gravity="right"
android:text="Descrição:"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium" />
...
And my manifest.xml
<activity
android:name=".LancarDocumentoAcaoActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" >
</activity>

Couple things I've tried this without the relative layout inside of the scroll view...and scroll view worked perfectly.
1.Is relative layout necessary inside a linear layout? Try removing it if not.
2.Is the attribute WindowSoftInputMode necessary for the corresponding class if not you will have the soft keyboard covering view elements like it is mentioned.
Let me know if this works.

Blank space at bottom of ListView not filled

EDIT
I originally thought this issue was related to the search widget and keyboard.
Original Question
I added the search widget to my app recently. Now when I land on MainActivity, the view is cut right where the keyboard would pop up. The content scrolls within that smaller box. When I hit the search widget in the action bar, the keyboard pops up and fills the blank space. When I collapse the keyboard, my view is complete and there is no blank space. Check this photo to see what I mean.
Here are my layouts
activity_main.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<ListView
android:id="#+id/list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:divider="#null" />
</LinearLayout>
feed_item.xml (inflates listview)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#color/feed_bg"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_marginLeft="#dimen/feed_item_margin"
android:layout_marginRight="#dimen/feed_item_margin"
android:layout_marginTop="#dimen/feed_item_margin"
android:background="#drawable/bg_parent_rounded_corner"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingBottom="#dimen/feed_item_padding_top_bottom"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/feed_item_padding_top_bottom" >
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/feed_item_padding_left_right"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/feed_item_padding_left_right" >
<com.android.volley.toolbox.NetworkImageView
android:id="#+id/vendorPic"
android:layout_width="#dimen/feed_item_vendor_pic_width"
android:layout_height="#dimen/feed_item_vendor_pic_height"
android:scaleType="fitCenter" >
</com.android.volley.toolbox.NetworkImageView>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/feed_item_profile_info_padd" >
<TextView
android:id="#+id/timestamp"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textColor="#color/timestamp"
android:textSize="#dimen/feed_item_timestamp" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<TextView
android:id="#+id/txtHeadlineMsg"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:paddingBottom="5dp"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/feed_item_status_pad_left_right"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/feed_item_status_pad_left_right"
android:paddingTop="#dimen/feed_item_status_pad_top" />
<com.example.myapp.FeedImageView
android:id="#+id/feedImage1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:background="#color/white"
android:scaleType="fitXY"
android:visibility="visible" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Here's my searchable config xml.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<searchable xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:label="#string/app_name"
android:hint="#string/search_hint" >
</searchable>
Let me know if you need more to go on, thanks!!
P.S. min sdk is 12.
UPDATE
The problem ended up being that the content didn't really fill the whole screen until the images were loaded from the Volley request. The text content was loaded and set the height of the listview, and subsequently loaded content did not dynamically change the listiview height. In production this won't be a problem probably, but is there a way to make sure that the ListView height can change dynamically?

It sounds like the keyboard is trying to expand when you open the activity. It is strange that it stays blank and doesn't show the actual keyboard, but maybe preventing the keyboard from opening in the beginning will help. Try setting
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden"
in your <activity> tag for this Activity in AndroidManfest.xml.

try this in the manifest.
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
and to your list view("id"),try adding
android:alignParentBottom:"true"

This ended up having nothing to do with the search widget or keyboard. the sizing was coincidental.
The problem lies in the fact that each item in the ListView had an image that was being loaded from the API via volley. the height of the ListView was being set by the content that was loaded first (i.e. text). Once the image loaded, it expanded each item in the list, but did not change the height of the parent ListView. This left the ugly gap at the bottom of the view.
On advice from #mattgmg1990, I changed the height of the ListView to match_parent in order to allow for late loading images.

How to set config changes only for one linear/relative layout?

In my layout xml file I have webview and LinearLayout.
when I open softinputmethod for webview, webview editText window(like google), is up to keyboard and that is good.
But when keyboard is open, my linearLayout is so squeeze, that all button looks terrifying.
How to set, that keyboard can change webview, but it can't destroy RelativeLayout?
there is some code:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/homebar"
android:layout_width="50dp"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
>
...//there is some buttons
</RelativeLayout>
<WebView
android:id="#+id/wv"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_toLeftOf="#+id/homebar" />
[sorry for my bad english]

LinearLayout is not a good way to handle the views when dynamic View is expected to get loaded in activity afterwards. Do use relative layout to solve this problem out.
<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"
tools:context=".MainActivity" >
</RelativeLayout>