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Prevent Linear layout scrolling up when soft keyboard shown

I have an EditText visible in a LinearLayout that I don't want to move when the soft keyboard is shown. The reason I don't want it to move is because I want to control the items above and adjust their sizes to make the EditText and the content it controls below to become visible.
Is it possible to prevent the screen moving at all once the soft keyboard is shown?
Note: I am using an activity with the toolbar hidden.

I have solved this - I have added the SetSoftInputMode to AdjustNothing to the OnCreate method. Doing this in the xml doesn't do anything, but in the code does.

In your AndroidManifest.xml file, go to your activity and add this.
<activity
...
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing"
/>
your views will remain in the same position

hiding half dialog at the top when soft keyboard is on

I have a dialog with an edit text inside. Once I open the keyboard I have two options :
1. resize the layout - and then the edittext is simply gone(visually).
2. pan - the edit text is shown partially and I do see every line I write in it.
BUT - the keyboard hides the Button at the bottom of the dialog (beneath the edittext)
I know it's possible in iOS. But is it possible in Android to simply lift the dialog to the top so that only half of it is seen ?
here's a picture to depict what I'm aiming at :

In your Manifest file add the following code for this particular activity
<activity android:name="yourActivity"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" >
</activity>
Check this doc for more info.
EDIT
try these.. may it works for you.
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize"

Use adjustResize with adjustPan
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize"
if it looks ugly then use ScrollView in dailog by using customview.

Lock view inside layout when keyboard appear

I have an ImageView aligned on bottom of my layout contains "footer" of my app. Layout contains also ad EditText. Now when i tap on EditText and keyboard appear, it doesn't go over my footer, but footer get moved on above keyboard. There's a way to lock the imageView and get keyboard go over ImageView?

Add this in your activity tag in the manifest android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan"

Yes. Have a look at android:windowSoftInputMode manifest attribute. Specifically, consider using adjustPan there.

Prevent background resize AND prevent auto-focus on activity start

After looking up various questions on stack overflow, I have found that many other people had the following problems:
Background gets resized when soft keyboard opens
Soft keyboard opens when activity starts
The solution to both of these lies in the ActivityManifest.xml.
To prevent the background image from being resized when the soft keyboard opens, you can add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan" to the <activity> in the manifest.
To prevent the soft keyboard opening when the activity starts, you can add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden" to the <activity> in the manifest.
The fact that one solution requires stateHidden and the other requires stateVisible means that I cannot use both solutions. I am looking to prevent the soft keyboard from stealing focus on activity start but also prevent the soft keyboard from resizing the background when the user does decide to focus on the EditText.
Is there a viable solution to both of these issues?

The fact that one solution requires stateHidden and the other requires
stateVisible means that I cannot use both solutions.
Yes. But, you can use stateHidden|adjustPan.
Keyboard will not pop up unless user clicks on an EditText. And potential changes to your background will be in terms of positioning; scaling of the background will not occur.

If your EditText is wrapped within a parent container, set android:focusableInTouchMode="true" for that container. Basically, make that container receive the initial focus when the activity starts. Take a look at this link

Is any part of your layout a scrollable container (like ListView)? If so, try setting android:isScrollContainer="false" on that item in your XML layout.
If you have any views which have android:isScrollContainer="true", the layout manager will attempt to resize your layout when the keyboard pops up, regardless of `android:windowSoftInputMode'.
Here's a similar question: What does android:isScrollContainer do?

There are basically two ways to fulfill your requirement.
Just use the below activity tag
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden"
Or
Using
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan" to the activity tag in the manifest.
Now with your EditText use following android:focusableInTouchMode="true" with android:focusable="false".

How Can I force my layout to get pushed up by the keyboard?

I have a relativelayout that fills the screen in an activity. And I launch a softkeyboard with code like this:
((InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE)).toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT,InputMethodManager.HIDE_NOT_ALWAYS);
It pops up on top of the RelativeLayout, instead of pushing the relativelayout up. Is there any way I can get the keyboard to do this? I tried adding android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" to my activity in the manifest but this did not help.

Did you try this android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" ? Also, it may be because you add a keyboard dynamically. Try and use only edit-text, as it opens the keyboard natively on click