Hiding the "top" part of the android soft keyboard

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I have a requirement to show a keyboard input in an app I'm making, but the "top" part of the soft keyboard needs to be hidden. I say "top" part, I'm sure it has a name but I haven't been able to find it. Instead, I've drawn a diagram showing you which part of the soft keyboard I want to hide (the part enclosed in the red rectangle):

Is this possible? If so, could someone point me to the official docs that explain it because I've been unable to find any (probably because I don't know the name for the "top" part).

Is the embedded picture showing? It's not for me, but I'm pretty sure I embedded it correctly.... — Thomas Cook, Nov 22 '18 at 12:04
Ok, I guess imgur's servers are under heavy load or something. I'll attempt to explain. The area above the number row is the area I would like to hide. — Thomas Cook, Nov 22 '18 at 12:08
image would be better. Are you talking about suggestions keyboard gives? — Rohit5k2, Nov 22 '18 at 12:09
No idea what's going on with the embedded image. If you click the link it loads fine, but for some reason it won't load when embedded on the question — Thomas Cook, Nov 22 '18 at 12:13
This is what we were looking at before. Now I am confused. You "top part" looks like the edit text and that is not part of the keyboard. — Rohit5k2, Nov 22 '18 at 12:14
that is a landscape mode of edittext enterring. It can be changed to the one used in portrait mode using `android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi"` for EditText. — Vladyslav Matviienko, Nov 22 '18 at 12:19
But it sure does look like part of keyboard. When I tap on edit text, that top bit slides up attached to the keyboard and covers my edit text... it appears to be part of the keyboard. — Thomas Cook, Nov 22 '18 at 12:19

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 22 '18 at 12:19

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Looks like you are talking about the full-screen editing view (landscape mode).

Try to add

android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi|flagNoFullscreen"

in the edit text

answered Nov 22 '18 at 12:19

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That did the job, so imeOptions is the key bit of docs I should have read! – Thomas Cook Nov 22 '18 at 12:20

Hiding the "top" part of the android soft keyboard

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