Android: ScrollView not scrolling with keyboard out

Question

I've got a layout with some views, from which one is an EditText. The layout easily fits on one page, BUT, when the soft keyboard is out, the layout doesn't scroll. Here's a recap of my layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/background" >

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/ScrollView1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true" >

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="vertical" >

            <CheckBox/>

            <TextView/>

            <LinearLayout>
                <EditText>
                    <requestFocus />
                </EditText>
            </LinearLayout>

            <TextView/>

            <LinearLayout>
                <Spinner/>
            </LinearLayout>

        </LinearLayout>

    </ScrollView>

    <Button
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" />

</RelativeLayout>

And in my manifest I have declared the attribute:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateHidden"

Does anyone know why it doesn't work and how to make sure it does work?

for Android 5, check out this related post: [Android - adjust scrollview when keyboard is up for android 5.0 (lollipop)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27167176/android-adjust-scrollview-when-keyboard-is-up-for-android-5-0-lollipop) — Richard Le Mesurier, Nov 27 '15 at 07:49

score 67 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 11 '15 at 10:10

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I had the same problem and I checked my activity in the manifest, and the reason why it wasn't working is because I didn't use this property:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

Now it works great and no need to do additional anchors.

edited Feb 11 '15 at 10:10

Deepzz

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answered Aug 12 '13 at 10:14

Ciprian

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score 38 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '13 at 19:38

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Okay, apparently the ScrollView's android:layout_height mustn't be set to wrap_content. I set it to match_parent and set the android:layout_above to the button on the bottom of the page.

Don't ask me why, but this fixed the issue.

answered Mar 15 '13 at 19:38

Xander

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`layout_above` whatever view you want to have fixed at the bottem of the screen – Xander Jul 10 '15 at 20:56
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what if no fixed view at bottom? – Nguyen Minh Binh Jan 04 '17 at 04:01
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Doesn't work if the ScrollView only takes up a part of the screen. If you have a layout at the bottom of your activity that acts like a footer, this solution will not work. – Johann Jun 15 '19 at 09:58

score 27 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 12 '17 at 08:49

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In my case, nothing of the above worked.

I had item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item> in my theme. And it was fixed by setting android:fitsSystemWindows="true" in the parent layout where is my scrollview.

answered Sep 12 '17 at 08:49

giorgos.nl

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score 13 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 14 '16 at 07:26

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Add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize" to your tag in AndroidManifest.xml file. This will cause the screen to be resized to the left over space after the soft keyboard is shown. So, you will be able to scroll easily.

edited Apr 14 '16 at 07:26

suresh madaparthi

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answered Nov 17 '14 at 10:55

Rajesh Hegde

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score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 16 '19 at 02:34

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In my case any of the solution above does not work until I REMOVE

getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN, WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);

in my activity, I use that code to get a full screen display. Maybe for certain cases, try to remove any setup of full screen to make any of the above solution works.

answered Aug 16 '19 at 02:34

Nur Hidayah Roslee

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Thanks your solution helped me , I had similar problem but I added fullscreen in styles.xml – Manohar Jan 27 '20 at 05:26

score 5 · Answer 6 · edited Jul 08 '20 at 05:44

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If your First Fragment Scroll perfectly and the second fragment did not scroll then you should use the second fragment replace and do below things

1.Add in ScrollView

android:fillViewport="true"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"

2.Add in Manifest

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateVisible"

If you add fragment then my suggestion is you need to Replace the Fragment

edited Jul 08 '20 at 05:44

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answered Jul 08 '20 at 05:28

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score 3 · Answer 7 · answered Jan 27 '20 at 05:20

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In my case I had to Remove the following property from my style to make it work .

<item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>

answered Jan 27 '20 at 05:20

Manohar

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Works as expected, Thanks. – Zakaria Boukaddouss Feb 02 '20 at 09:29

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Feb 05 '15 at 10:18

My problem was with a HorizontalScrollView. In my case I had to set HorizontalScrollView to:

android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"

And remove:

 android:layout_above="@+id/closeButton"
 android:layout_below="@+id/logo"

In the AndroidManifest.xml the activity is set to:

android:windowSoftInputMode=""

I hope this helps anyone comming across this weird bug.

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jul 18 '20 at 11:02

In my case, what solved this was setting a missing constraint in the Bottom. My ScrollView had top, right, and left constraints, but no bottom one. After restricting it from all sides, it started to overlap the above textview, which prompted me to try putting the height to 0dp, and that seemed to solve the problem.

score -2 · Answer 10 · answered Jul 10 '17 at 04:30

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Try to set ScrollView as your parent layout. It works like charm for me!

answered Jul 10 '17 at 04:30

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score -6 · Answer 11 · answered Apr 22 '18 at 16:47

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<activity 
    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
>

try this In android manifest ..

answered Apr 22 '18 at 16:47

Sufi Ammar Sahb

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That answer was already given by [Ciprian in 2013](https://stackoverflow.com/a/18184481/3004518) – auhmaan Jul 19 '18 at 15:08

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