Android Full Screen resize when soft input is shown

Question

I am developing an Android app in full screen mode. I want the screen automatically adjusted when a soft input is shown. I am using ScrollView to make my screen can extend larger than the maximum height. You can see the layout XML below:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/RelativeLayout1"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context="${packageName}.${activityClass}" >

    <VideoView
        android:id="@+id/taskdetail_bgvideo"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/taskdetail_scroll"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

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

            <!-- Other Widgets -->

        </LinearLayout>
    </ScrollView>
</RelativeLayout>

The VideoView in the background is placed as intended to create a background video in the overall layout.

I tried the workaround in Android How to adjust layout in Full Screen Mode when softkeyboard is visible but somehow in my case, it doesn't work as expected. When I choose the bottommost TextView, all screen somehow pushed upwards to the top, leaving a very big black area between soft keyboard and the activity screen. Check the screenshot below (Sorry, still low reputation, so cannot post the image directly :( )

Giant blackhole

So do you have any possible idea to tackle this weird behavior? In addition, I also have tried setting the softInputMode to ADJUST_RESIZE or ADJUST_PAN, and both settings did that. When I set it to ADJUST_NOTHING, nothing really adjusted at all.

When I don't use the workaround I mentioned above, I cannot scroll the view to the bottommost widget, but somehow the window view is panned to the focused TextView. I believe that this is actually the major culprit, but I don't know how to fix it.

Thanks in advance :)

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 27 '15 at 10:03

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If you have the property <item name="windowFullscreen">true</item> in your theme then the android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" doesn't work.

answered Aug 27 '15 at 10:03

kassim

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '14 at 18:53

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Try change

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/taskdetail_scroll"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

to

<ScrollView
    android:id="@+id/taskdetail_scroll"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

answered May 11 '14 at 18:53

Igor Morais

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Try this.. Put the ScrollView as root element, sounds like.. – Igor Morais May 12 '14 at 17:22

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited May 12 '14 at 04:33

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Try to add below properties to your <activity tag declaration in AndroidManifest.xml

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan"

edited May 12 '14 at 04:33

Mohit Jain

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answered May 12 '14 at 04:08

Haresh Chhelana

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Unfortunately it does not work as I expected. I don't want to pan the screen when the keyboard is shown. I want it to resize the activity screen size to the usable area above soft keyboard. But because the activity is in Full Screen, the adjustResize will not work. – Gilang May 12 '14 at 17:16

score -1 · Answer 4 · answered May 12 '14 at 04:26

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you have to write

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan"

in your manifest file

answered May 12 '14 at 04:26

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Android Full Screen resize when soft input is shown

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