I have a RelativeLayout with an EditText that has a Button below it. Ideally as the user clicks the EditText and fills in multiple lines of text, the RelativeLayout would also expand as the lines increase. However, the behavior I have now is that after the first line of the EditText is filled, the keyboard begins to cover the Button below it and after 3-4 lines of text in the EditText, the Button is gone below the keyboard. Is there any way to have it so that as I type in text, the entire layout increases in size so that the button stays above the keyboard? Here is my code:
AndroidManifest.xml:
<activity
android:name="<Name of project>.activity.Comments"
android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden"
android:label="Comments"
android:screenOrientation="portrait"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme.NoActionBar"
android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize" />
Comments.xml:
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/send_message"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="90dp"
android:layout_margin="4dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<EditText
android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
android:id="@+id/write_comment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="12dp"
android:gravity="left"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textColor="@color/black"
android:cursorVisible="false"
android:textColorHint="@color/material_color_grey_300"
android:hint="@string/commentBack"
android:background="@drawable/edittext_bg"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:isScrollContainer="true"
android:maxLength="200"
android:scrollHorizontally="false" />
<Button
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-medium"
android:id="@+id/send_comment"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textColor="@color/colorPrimary"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:text="@string/send"
android:background="@null"
android:layout_below="@id/write_comment"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:textAllCaps="false" />
</RelativeLayout>
I've tried to add android:isScrollContainer="true" thinking that it would create a scroll container to the EditText so that it would help expand the layout but that didn't seem to work. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: Added in entire layout based on answer below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent" android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
android:id="@+id/comments_layout">
<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:theme="@style/AppTheme.AppBarOverlay">
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
android:id="@+id/comments_appbar"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
app:popupTheme="@style/AppTheme.PopupOverlay" />
</android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:layout_marginTop="?attr/actionBarSize"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:id="@+id/comments_listview"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<ListView
android:scrollbars="vertical"
app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/rv_view_comments">
</ListView>
<TextView
android:layout_below="@id/rv_view_comments"
android:gravity="center_horizontal"
android:padding="16dp"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:id="@+id/empty_list_item"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:visibility="gone"
android:text="@string/noComments" >
</TextView>
<include layout="@layout/include_progress_overlay"/>
</RelativeLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:id="@+id/send_message"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="90dp"
android:layout_margin="4dp"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<EditText
android:fontFamily="sans-serif"
android:id="@+id/write_comment"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="12dp"
android:gravity="left"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textColor="@color/black"
android:cursorVisible="false"
android:textColorHint="@color/material_color_grey_300"
android:hint="@string/commentBack"
android:background="@drawable/edittext_bg"
android:inputType="textMultiLine"
android:isScrollContainer="true"
android:maxLength="200"
android:scrollHorizontally="false" />
<Button
android:fontFamily="sans-serif-medium"
android:id="@+id/send_comment"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:textSize="16sp"
android:textColor="@color/colorPrimary"
android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
android:text="@string/send"
android:background="@null"
android:layout_below="@id/write_comment"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:textAllCaps="false" />
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>
Edit: As per Jaydroider's request, I have included a photo to show my problem. If I could make a GIF or something, if I add more text to my EditText field, the Send button will disappear under the keyboard and unless I remove text from the EditText, the `Send cannot be pushed:
Edit: I have also shown how I scroll to the bottom of my ListView when I click on the EditText here if this helps.
public void setupComment(final EditText comment) {
//Once we send the post, we want to scroll to bottom of listview
comment.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
@Override
public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId,
KeyEvent event) {
if (event != null && (event.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)) {
comment.setImeOptions(EditorInfo.IME_ACTION_DONE);
resetKeyboardSettings();
}
return false;
}
});
//Hide the cursor until view is clicked on
View.OnTouchListener onTouchListener = new View.OnTouchListener(){
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
System.out.println("Touched");
if (v.getId() == comment.getId()) {
comment.setCursorVisible(true);
}
commentsView.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
commentsView.smoothScrollToPosition(commentsView.getAdapter().getCount());
}
}, 750);
return false;
}
};
comment.setOnTouchListener(onTouchListener);
}
