How to get the Height of Android Keyboard?

Question

How get height of Android Keyboard?

I try:

KeyboardView keyboardView = new KeyboardView(_activity.getApplicationContext(), null);
Log.i("","xxx height " + keyboardCustom.mKeyboardView.getHeight());
            Log.i("","xxx height " + keyboardCustom.mKeyboardView.getBottom());

But always get 0.

Refer this :http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6009487/get-the-height-of-virtual-keyboard-in-android — Krupa Patel, Apr 16 '15 at 04:42
This is always the wrong question (particularly with floating keyboards). What are you actually trying to do? — ianhanniballake, Apr 16 '15 at 04:51
I need get height of virtual android keyboard for place some image over virtual keyboard. — Knaus Irina, Apr 16 '15 at 08:14

score 9 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 29 '19 at 13:29

Use OnGlobalLayoutListener for getting Keyboard height or implement above code snippet

chatRootLayout is your xml root layout

pass this rootLayout as parentLayout parameter in checkKeyboardHeight

 private void checkKeyboardHeight(final View parentLayout)
    {
      chatRootLayout.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() 
      {
            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() 
            {
                    Rect r = new Rect();

                    chatRootLayout.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

                    int screenHeight = chatRootLayout.getRootView().getHeight();
                    int keyboardHeight = screenHeight - (r.bottom);

                    if (previousHeightDiffrence - keyboardHeight > 50) 
                    {                           
                        // Do some stuff here
                    }

                    previousHeightDiffrence = keyboardHeight;
                    if (keyboardHeight> 100) 
                    {
                        isKeyBoardVisible = true;
                        changeKeyboardHeight(keyboardHeight);
                    } 
                    else
                    {
                        isKeyBoardVisible = false;
                    }
                }
        });
}

Here is changeKeyboardHeight() method

private void changeKeyboardHeight(int height) 
{
    if (height > 100) 
    {
            keyboardHeight = height;
            LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, keyboardHeight);
            yourLayout.setLayoutParams(params);
    }
}

I use parentLayout as _activity.getWindow().getDecorView() and chatRootLayout as EditTextEx. And never call addOnGlobalLayoutListener — Knaus Irina, Apr 16 '15 at 10:13
Call checkKeyboardHeight() method on your onCreate() and make sure that your parentLayout & chatRootLayout must be your xml root/main layout (whether it was Linear/Relative).. — Shekhar Mangrule, Apr 16 '15 at 11:23
I try get height of virtual keyboard for Unity3d. I dont`t have xml layout — Knaus Irina, Apr 18 '15 at 04:57

How to get the Height of Android Keyboard?

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