Android: Soft keyboard is pushing my root view up off the screen

Question

Every time the keyboard opens it pushes my root constraint layout up off the screen.

This is it normally

Then when i click a span it brings up a little control panel thing at the bottom like so, note the top of the screen with the title.

now when i click the edit text to type my answer it pushes everything up and the highest i can scroll is here, its like the top of the scrollview is up off the top of the screen. i can no longer see the title or question 1. This is with adjustPan set in the manifest. Ive tried to change it to adjust resize as i thought that would resize the views height but it makes it worse.

here is my xml:

<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/questionRoot"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    android:background="?android:attr/colorBackground"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:focusable="true">

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/scrollView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/actionFrameLayout"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.0"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent">

        <RelativeLayout
            android:id="@+id/relativeLayout"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/questionTitle"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
                android:layout_marginTop="48dp"
                android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
                android:textAlignment="viewStart"
                android:textColor="#353535"
                android:textSize="18sp"
                android:textStyle="bold"
                tools:text="Title" />

            <TextView
                android:id="@+id/questionBody"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_below="@id/questionTitle"
                android:layout_marginStart="16dp"
                android:layout_marginTop="24dp"
                android:layout_marginEnd="16dp"
                android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
                android:lineSpacingExtra="10dp"
                android:paddingBottom="32dp"
                android:textSize="16sp" />

        </RelativeLayout>

    </ScrollView>

    <View
        android:id="@+id/topBorder"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"
        android:background="#D3D3D3"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@id/frameLayout"
        />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/bottomBorder"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="1dp"
        android:background="#D3D3D3"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        />


    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/frameLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="48dp"
        android:background="@color/white"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@id/bottomBorder"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent">

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent">

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/showTimer"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_weight="1"
                android:text="Timer" />

            <Button
                android:id="@+id/finishTestButton"
                android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:text="Finish" />

        </LinearLayout>

    </FrameLayout>

    <FrameLayout
        android:id="@+id/actionFrameLayout"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@id/frameLayout"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="1.0"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent">

    </FrameLayout>

</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

edit: this is what setting the manifest file with adjustResize does :

Answer 1

I was dealing with a similar issue in a WebView Fragment and the solution was the following code inserted inside my main activity class onCreate:

    getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_PAN);

If you want to try something from the Manifest level, you could try:

    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"

Hope it helps you as well as it helped me!