In the activity entry in your AndroidManifest
try putting:
android:windowSoftInputMode:adjustPan
, this means when the keyboard comes up it will adjust the view behind it to move up so it is not obscured by the keyboard.
In the EditText
you can also try adding a paddingBottom
to adjust the gap between the keyboard and the bottom of the EditText
.
In my case I had a custom background
for the EditText
, which was no longer looking OK. Because the parent view for me was ConstraintLayout
I added another View
element behind the EditText
with:
app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="@id/view_chat_history_send_text"
app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="@id/view_chat_history_send_text"
app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@id/view_chat_history_send_text"
android:layout_marginBottom="@dimen/margin_normal"
Note: here view_chat_history_send_text
is the EditText
. And then I added a layout_marginBottom
of the same margin as the paddingBottom
of the EditText
.
This means, when the EditText
grows the background view grows as well, but it still maintains the gap between the keyboard and the EditText
bottom.