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android scrollview not working windowSoftInputMode

I have one activity and in this activity's windowSoftInputMode is stateAlwaysHidden
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysHidden"
i created custom Xml file and in this xml i have one edittext in top position and one button in bottom position
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:fillViewport="true">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#ffffff"
android:minHeight="#dimen/u_base_min_height">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#ffffff"
android:minHeight="#dimen/u_base_min_height"
android:orientation="vertical">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/transfer_headerView_height">
<EditText
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_centerVertical="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:id="#+id/bottom_layout"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:paddingLeft="#dimen/u_common_margin_left"
android:paddingRight="#dimen/u_common_margin_right">
<Button
android:id="#+id/u_done"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/u_widget_height"
android:background="#drawable/rounded_corners_blue"
android:text="#string/u_register_next"
android:textColor="#ffffff"
android:textSize="#dimen/u_common_text_size" />
<View
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="#dimen/u_common_margin_left" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
when keyboard is showing i can not show my button whitch is a bottom position,scrollview now working.
i searched about my problem and i tryed to change windowSoftInputMode in manifest file
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
but i don't need this solution because my button moving keyboard up when my keyboard is showing...
how i can solve my problem? if anyone knows solution please help me
thanks everyone

put your bottom button outside the scrollview. Make two separate layouts. In upper layout put your scrollview content and in lower layout put your bottom button.

For that use below code
<android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:isScrollContainer="true">

Fragment in LinearLayout changes its height

I'm trying to set very simple thing in XML in android app.
I want to put fragment in top of every activity, and trying to divide screen into 2/8 weight (sum 10). But unfortunately this is changing from activity to activity. No idea why. Any help? :)
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="top" >
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragment_top"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:layout_gravity="top"
class="com.app.TopFragment" />
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="8"
android:id="#+id/chart_scrollview" >
Here goes LinearLayout with other linearlayouts inside.
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>
Any ideas?
EDIT:
Fragment class declaration is:
class TopFragment extends Fragment implements View.OnClickListener{}
EDIT2:
Thank you guys. Funny thing is that I already tried this 0dip thing and it was not working. Now it's working, but for any other people fighting similar problem here's the hint: Do not use
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
on anything which is inside of these things in my sample code. Always use
android:layout_width="match_parent"
This was the reason why 0dip solution was not working. Thank you very much.

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:gravity="top" >
<fragment
android:id="#+id/fragment_top"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:layout_gravity="top"
class="com.app.TopFragment" />
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="8"
android:id="#+id/chart_scrollview" >
<!-- Here goes LinearLayout with other linearlayouts inside-->
</ScrollView>
</LinearLayout>

Try changing height of fragment and ScrollView from wrap_content to match_parent or 0dip if you want to control the height of the views by their weights.

then you should write something like this in your xml
<com.app.TopFragment
android:id="#+id/fragment_top"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="2"
android:layout_gravity="top"
class="com.app.TopFragment" />

Android layout priotity

My xml code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/relativeLayout2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" android:visibility="invisible">
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/video_playback_pause"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<SeekBar
android:id="#+id/seekbar_video"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="#id/video_playback_pause" android:clickable=""/>
</RelativeLayout>
<VideoView
android:id="#+id/videoView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</RelativeLayout>
Now whe RelativeLayout and VideoView override.
the VideoView is show, and the RelativeLayout is hidden.
How to make the RelativeLayout on the top of VideoView?
Another problem is why the seekbar did not click?
I find that the priority of layout is decide by establish order?
But the problem of seekbar is still not resolve.

Try this...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="#+id/RelativeLayout1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
android:id="#+id/relativeLayout2"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_alignParentLeft="true" android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >
<ImageButton
android:id="#+id/video_playback_pause"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
<SeekBar
android:id="#+id/seekbar_video"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_below="#+id/video_playback_pause" android:clickable="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>
<VideoView
android:id="#+id/videoView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</LinearLayout>
EDIT:
You can use the visibilty property as below
android:visibility="invisible" // invisible- just invisible the controls not the space
//gone - removes the allocated space too
//visible- shows the control
At run time also you can change
mylayout.setVisibilty(View.GONE)...

When it comes to your seekbar, this could be the possible answer: Set
android:clickable="true"
and in your java code, try putting an Event Listener. For Event Listeners, http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/ui-events.html
When it comes to your layout, you can try using a Linear Layout and then nest a Relative Layout inside it. You might have to change your xml a bit.

Answer for the first part of question.
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:layout_centerInParent="true">
The inner relativeLayout's visibility is set to invisible.Remove it.
You have provided android:clickable="" for seekbar. May be thats why its not working.
Remove that and try.
Hope this will help you.

Stacking two different views with different sizes on a layout

I've searched for an answer for this all over but the solutions offered did not solve my problem.
I have a layout where I display some views (a few buttons and a background). To this i've added a custom control i've made extending linear layout. This control is displayed above the layout quite nicely.
What I wish to do is add an additional ImageView which is larger than this control but it will be in front of it.
edited: Sorry, I hope this will clear things up.
I have one large layout (Relative) for my activity, I would like to stack on this layout two additional views\layout so the final version will be the picture attached:
This is my layout - which stacks the imageview right on the menubar, and not over the others. Trying to put the FrameLayout elsewhere still didn't give me the wanted result.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background">
<RelativeLayout android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="450dip">
<com.myproject.controls.SearchControl
android:id="#+id/scSearch"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<ExpandableListView android:id="#+id/lstItems"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/scSearch"
android:layout_marginLeft="26dip"
/>
</RelativeLayout>
<FrameLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<com.myproject.controls.MenubarMain
android:id="#+id/mbMenuBarMain"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:gravity="bottom"
/>
<ImageView android:src="#drawable/myicon"
android:layout_width="200dip"
android:layout_height="200dip"
/>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Not sure it this will work or not cause I'm typing this up at work. But moral of the story here is get used to using RelativeLayout. You have much more control over your layout.
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#drawable/background">
<com.myproject.controls.MenubarMain
android:id="#+id/mbMenuBarMain"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
</com.myproject.controls.MenubarMain>
<com.myproject.controls.SearchControl
android:id="#+id/scSearch"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true">
</com.myproject.controls.SearchControl>
<ExpandableListView android:id="#+id/lstItems"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="#id/scSearch"
android:layout_above="#id/mbMenuBarMain"
android:layout_paddingLeft="26dp"/>
<ImageView android:src="#drawable/myicon"
android:layout_width="200dp"
android:layout_height="200dp"
android:layout_alignBottom="#id/mbMenuBarMain"
android:layout_alignRight="#id/mbMenuBarMain"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Android: How can you align a button at the bottom and listview above?

I want to have a button at the bottom of the listview.
If I use relativeLayout/FrameLayout, it aligns but listView goes down to very botton.
(Behind the button at the bottom)
FrameLayout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FrameLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>
<FrameLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnButton"
android:text="Hello"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
</FrameLayout>
</FrameLayout>
RelativeLayout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/listview"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
/>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/btnButton"
android:text="Hello"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_gravity="bottom" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
Above two codes only work like the first image. What I want is second image.
Can anybody help?
Thank you.

A FrameLayouts purpose is to overlay things on top of each other. This is not what you want.
In your RelativeLayout example you set the ListViews height and width to MATCH_PARENT this is going to make it take up the same amount of space as its parent, and thus take up all of the space on the page (and covers the button).
Try something like:
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ListView
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dip"
android:layout_weight="1"/>
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="0"/>
</LinearLayout>
The layout_weight dictates how the extra space is to be used. The Button does not want to stretch beyond the space it requires, so it has a weight of 0. The ListView wants to take up all of the extra space, so it has a weight of 1.
You could accomplish something similar using a RelativeLayout, but if it is just these two items then I think a LinearLayout is simpler.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="#ffffff"
>
<ListView android:id="#+id/ListView01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1">
</ListView>
<FrameLayout android:id="#+id/FrameLayout01"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<Button android:id="#+id/Button01"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:text="button"
android:layout_gravity="center_horizontal">
</Button>
</FrameLayout>
</LinearLayout>
Here is the design you are looking for.
Try it.

I needed two buttons side-by-side at the bottom. I used a horizontal linear layout, but assigning android:layout_height="0dp" and android:layout_weight="0" for the buttons' linear layout didn't work. Assigning android:layout_height="wrap_content" for just the buttons' linear layout did. Here's my working layout:
<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/listView1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="0dp"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">
<Button
android:id="#+id/new_button"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="New" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/suggest_button"
android:layout_width="0dp"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="Suggest" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

RelativeLayout will ignore its children android:layout_width or android:layout_height attributes, if the children have attributes that properly define their left and right or top and bottom values, respectively.
To achieve the result on the right image, showing the list above the button, your layout should look like this:
<RelativeLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
android:id="#android:id/list"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_above="#android:id/button1"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"/>
<Button
android:id="#android:id/button1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:text="#android:string/ok"/>
</RelativeLayout>
The key is to define android:layout_alignParentTop (defines top value) and android:layout_above (defines bottom value) in your RecyclerView. This way, RelativeLayout will ignore android:layout_height="match_parent", and the RecyclerView will be placed above the Button.
Also, make sure you look into android:layout_alignWithParentIfMissing, if you have a more complex layout and you still need to define these values.

I am using Xamarin Android, and my requirement is exactly the same as William T. Mallard, above, i.e. a ListView with 2 side-by-side buttons under it.
The solution is this answer didn't work in Xamarin Studio however - when I set the height of the ListView to "0dp", the ListView simply disappeared.
My working Xamarin Android code is as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:orientation="vertical"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/ListView1"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:layout_above="#+id/ButtonsLinearLayout" />
<LinearLayout
android:id="#id/ButtonsLinearLayout"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:orientation="horizontal"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<Button
android:id="#+id/Button1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" />
<Button
android:id="#+id/Button2"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
I aligned ButtonsLinearLayout to the bottom of the screen, and set the ListView to be above ButtonsLinearLayout.

#jclova one more thing you can do is use layout-below=#+id/listviewid in relative layout

In your relative layout height of listview is match_parent which is fill_parent(for 2.1 and older) so best solution is if you want to use relative layout then first Declare your button then your list view, make list view position as above your button id, If you want button always at bottom then make it alignParentBottom..
Snippet is
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:id="#+id/rl1"><Button
android:layout_width="MATCH_PARENT"
android:layout_height="WRAP_CONTENT"
/><ListView
android:layout_width="MATCH_PARENT"
android:layout_height="0"
android:layout_above="#id/listview"/></RelativeLayout>
This prevents your list view taking whole place and make your button appear..

This will be the best and the most simple solution to the problem. Just add android:layout_above="#id/nameOfId" in the layout that you want to move above with respect to that layout.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context="com.sumeru.commons.activity.CommonDocumentUploadActivity">
<ListView
android:id="#+id/documentList"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="#id/verifyOtp" />
<com.sumeru.commons.helper.CustomButton
android:id="#+id/verifyOtp"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:text="#string/otp_verification" />
</RelativeLayout>