How to set the distance from soft keyboard to EditText?

Question

I have a problem with soft keyboard overlapping parts of EditTexts.

When I click my EditTexts the soft keyboard appears just below the text, which means that a part of the text box is not shown as the soft keyboard overlaps it.

Any ideas how to increase the distance between EditText and Soft keyboard?

@ClaireG even simply wrapping it up in scroll view does not result the acquired result — Usman Kurd, Sep 06 '13 at 13:04

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 13:03

There will be certain Solutions available that some times works and some times not what I am using is working and will handle your scenario Use the following Step by step

1- Add Scroll view to your layout inside the main layout

2- get Its reference

3- now use the following code snippet

editTextField.setOnFocusChangeListener(new OnFocusChangeListener() {

        @Override
        public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            v.postDelayed(new Runnable() {

                @Override
                public void run() {
                    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                    /*if(Build.VERSION.SDK.equals("4.1.1")||Build.VERSION.SDK.equals("4.1.2"))
                    {

                    }
                    else
                    {*/
                    scrollView.scrollBy(0, 150);
                    //}
                }
            }, 500);

        }
    });

when ever screen needs to adjust the overlay it will scroll up the screen

Your solution does not work for EditTexts that are located at the bottom of the screen where you cannot scroll anymore. — user1354603, Sep 06 '13 at 13:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 25 '17 at 05:32

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Just Try this,

Add gravity Bottom in Edit text and provide padding bottom As you need.

 <EditText
    android:gravity="bottom"
    android:paddingBottom="10dp"

    ................

   />

answered Oct 25 '17 at 05:32

Gravity bottom fixes it – DIRTY DAVE Apr 10 '20 at 02:46

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 06 '13 at 13:02

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Try this way

In your mainfest.xml

<activity
            android:name="YourActivity"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize" />

answered Sep 06 '13 at 13:02

Biraj Zalavadia

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I rather not use adjustResize as it does a non-appealing animation during the resize.. – user1354603 Sep 06 '13 at 13:26

score -1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '13 at 12:06

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The problem wasn't caused by EditText, but TextViews that messed up the layout.

answered Sep 12 '13 at 12:06

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What happen to your Textview ? I have same problem can you give a solution? – Yog Guru Apr 01 '14 at 07:21
@user1354603 - Please be more specific – thecoolmacdude Aug 06 '14 at 19:29
A TextView was used as a label to an EditText. The problem was that the TextView had padding and the EditText did not, so they just weren't aligned. – user1354603 Aug 11 '14 at 12:02

How to set the distance from soft keyboard to EditText?

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