Android keyboard covering edit text

Question

I have an edit text in my page and I need to adjust screen to show the values typing in it.

I have action bar in my page and I have given android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateAlwaysHidden" .

When I run the app, I touch on my edit text and keyboard pops up. The edit text comes on top of the keyboard now which is right. But when I start typing this edit text goes down the keyboard.

This doesn't happen in all devices. In Samsung S3 its having this issue. How to solve this? Please help me out.

Edit:

My edit ext code is as below:

<EditText
            android:id="@+id/name"
            android:layout_width="300dp"
            android:layout_height="50dp"
            android:layout_below="@+id/empId"
            android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
            android:ellipsize="end"
            android:hint="@string/name"
            android:inputType="text"
            android:maxLines="1"
            android:padding="5dp"
            android:textColor="@android:color/black" />

please post your code... – Harshit Rathi Dec 02 '13 at 06:06 — Harshit Rathi, Dec 02 '13 at 06:06
@Megamind My complete layout is inside a scrollview only. – Anju Dec 02 '13 at 06:07 — Anju, Dec 02 '13 at 06:07
@HarshitRathi please find my edit text code – Anju Dec 02 '13 at 06:12 — Anju, Dec 02 '13 at 06:12

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '13 at 06:12

I had similar problem.what i did was , iadded a linear layout below the root layout like this

  <LinearLayout
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:id="@+id/footer_for_emoticons"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="@dimen/keyboard_height"
        android:visibility="gone" >
    </LinearLayout>

Then in the activity

activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(
                new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
                    @Override
                    public void onGlobalLayout() {
                        Rect r = new Rect();
                        activityRootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

                        int heightDiff = activityRootView.getRootView()
                                .getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
                        if (lastDiff == heightDiff)
                            return;
                        lastDiff = heightDiff;
                        Log.i("aerfin","arefin "+lastDiff);
                        if (heightDiff > 100) { //Assume keyboard is present 
                            emoticonsCover.setVisibility( View.VISIBLE );
                            flag2 = 0;
                        } else {
                            if (flag == false)
                                flag2 = 1;
                               emoticonsCover.setVisibility( View.GONE );
                        }
                    }
                });

The linear layout will provide the gap and in manifest add android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" to the activity.Check whether it helps

Android keyboard covering edit text

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