Move layouts up when soft keyboard is shown?

Question

I have a few elements in a RelativeView with the align bottom attribute set, when the soft keyboard comes up the elements are hidden by the soft keyboard.

I would like them to move up so that if there is enough screen space they are shown above the keyboard, or to make the section above the keyboard scrollable so the user can still see the elements.

Any ideas on how to approach this?

@Dinedal How do u set align bottom attribute to ur RelativeView??? — KJEjava48
– KJEjava48, Commented Sep 22, 2016 at 5:17
I posted a simple solution that does not involve adding anything to the manifest. Just a simple layout and android handles the rest. See stackoverflow.com/questions/15323758/… — Jeffrey
– Jeffrey, Commented Jun 2, 2021 at 3:05

joe · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-15 16:06:45Z

Yes, check out this article on the Android developers' site which describes how the framework handles the soft keyboard appearing.

The android:windowSoftInputMode attribute can be used to specify what happens on a per-activity basis: whether the layout is resized or whether it scrolls etc.

Bob · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-25 09:13:17Z

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You can also use this code in onCreate() method:

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

answered Feb 25, 2013 at 9:13

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Piotr Over a year ago

For me even if I set adjustPan screnn move only up to the edit text I've clicked but not the whole layout

Mahmoud Mabrok · Accepted Answer · 2021-05-08 14:42:25Z

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Make changes in the activity of your Manifest file like

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

OR

Make changes in your onCreate() method in the activity class like

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

edited May 8, 2021 at 14:42

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CoolMind Over a year ago

Why do you use different flags?

Andrea Leganza Over a year ago

Current version requires android prefix: android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

Serhii Bohutskyi · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-16 15:00:57Z

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Add in AndroidManifest.xml for your activity:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize"

answered Oct 16, 2013 at 15:00

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joe1806772 Over a year ago

According to docs the behaviour is unspecified if you use two "adjust..." flags here. See developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/…

Ido Barnea · Accepted Answer · 2021-10-12 10:15:23Z

similar issue i was facing with my layout which consist scroll view inside. Whenever i try to select text in EditText,Copy/Cut/Paste action bar gets moved up with below code as such it does not resize layout

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"

By modifying it to as below

AndroidManifest.xml

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize"
style.xml file ,in activity style

true

It worked for me.

Zahra.HY · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-29 08:05:47Z

In AndroidManifest.xml, don't forget to set:

 android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

and for RelativeLayout inside ScrollView ,set :

 android:layout_gravity="center" or android:layout_gravity="bottom"

it will be okay

android:layout_gravity="center" worked, thanks! :) now EditText moves over the keyboard as I wanted

Rahul_Pawar · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-10 10:58:01Z

for Activity in its oncreate methode insert below line

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

and for fragments in its onCreate method

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

Vlad · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-14 12:01:20Z

There are 3 steps to follow to scroll screen up.

Write in manifest file for your activity:

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

Add following line in oncreate() method of your activity

getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_VISIBLE|WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_RESIZE);

Then place your whole view in "Scrollview" in XML file like :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:background="@drawable/bg" android:layout_height="match_parent" > <RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_gravity="center" > <TextView /> ......... <TextView /> <EditText > <requestFocus /> </EditText> <Button /> </RelativeLayout> </ScrollView>

P.S. Don't forget to add android:layout_gravity="center" in parent Relative layout.

Prakash Reddy · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-20 07:42:05Z

<activity name="ActivityName" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"> ... </activity>

Add NestedScrollView around layout which you want to scroll, this will perfectly work

CoolMind · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-13 17:21:27Z

I tried a method of Diego Ramírez, it works. In AndroidManifest:

 <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"> ... </activity>

In activity_main.xml:

<LinearLayout ... android:orientation="vertical"> <Space android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="0dp" android:layout_weight="1" /> <EditText android:id="@+id/edName" android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:ems="10" android:hint="@string/first_name" android:inputType="textPersonName" /> <EditText ...> ... </LinearLayout>

Martin Vichev · Accepted Answer · 2021-11-07 22:33:35Z

This is what worked for me after looking at a lot of solutions:

In AndroidManifest.xml add the following line to an activity declaration in the manifest file of your project.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan"

The code should look something like this:

 <activity android:name=".MainActivity" android:screenOrientation="landscape" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustPan"> </activity>

Sorry about that. Just edited the answer, try with this version (changed "stateVisible" to "stateHidden" and added "adjustPan"). The previous version didn't work for me now either.

Darush · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-27 08:54:25Z

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I just added the following line to the top level layout and everything worked:

android:fitsSystemWindows="true"

answered Jun 27, 2019 at 8:54

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Heroes84 Over a year ago

@yash786 is possibly show button below edittext that receive a focus ? Second question can you share you layout file or answer me how you add edittext a top of keybord ?

zoom Over a year ago

it works for me event without android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize"

KyluAce Over a year ago

yea this works but also change height of widget and quite ruin view

Diego Ramírez Vásquez · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-10 22:05:43Z

I have found a solution to my problems that it's pretty same as yours.

First of all, I only have a LinearLayout with 2 elements, an ImageView and a LinearLayout wich contains 2 EditText and one Button, so I needed to keep them separate in full screen without keyboard, and when the keyboard appears they should look closer.

So I added the view between them with the height attribute in 0dp and weight 1, that let me keep my views separate one form each other. and when the keyboard appers, as they don't have a fix height, they just resize and keep the aspect.

Voila! The layout resize and the distance between my views is the same when the keyboard is or not present.

I posted a sample code above: stackoverflow.com/a/31994697/2914140.
you can achieve this in a less hacky way by using a ConstraintLayout and pinning a top section to the top and a bottom section to the bottom. When the keyboard opens it will naturally resize by squeezing the space in the middle (if you use adjustResize)

OhhhThatVarun · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-16 01:01:57Z

If user want this task using manifest then add this line in manifest
In manifest add this line: - android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" e.g.

In Java File or Kotlin File (Programmatically):- If the user wants this using Activity then add the below line in onCreate Method

activity?.window()?.setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_RESIZE)

Hi and welcome to stackoverflow, and thank you for your answer. Rather than just posting a block of code, can you give a short explanation to what the issue is you solved and how you solved it? This will help people who find this question in the future to better understand the issue and how to deal with it.

Dantalian · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-31 06:25:29Z

Here is full manifest code

<activity android:name=".activities.MainActivity" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" android:label="@string/app_name"> <intent-filter> <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" /> <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" /> </intent-filter> </activity>

Tippu Fisal Sheriff · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-12 13:28:22Z

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Use Scroll View as a Parent and use this Tag in Scroll View

android:fillViewport="true"

answered Nov 12, 2020 at 13:28

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duggu · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-26 13:27:58Z

if you are in fragments then you have to add the below code to your onCreate on your activity it solves issue for me

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

Shivam Garg · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-03 18:43:50Z

In your manifest file add the below line. It will work

<activity name="MainActivity" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustResize"> ... </activity>

Muhammad Umar · Accepted Answer · 2023-08-14 10:46:21Z

I tried a lot of methods but at the I added this line in the AndroidManifest.xml file and it worked perfectly

<activity ... android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize"

Omar Boshra · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-01 01:44:14Z

Alright this is very late however I've discovered that if you add a List View under your edit text then the keyboard will move all layouts under that edittext without moving the ListView

<EditText android:id="@+id/et" android:layout_height="match_parent" android:layout_width="match_parent" /> <ListView android:layout_width="match_parent" android:layout_height="match_parent"//can make as 1dp android:layout_below="@+id/et" // set to below editext android:id="@+id/view" > **<any layout**

This is the only solution that worked for me.

Mahbubur Rahman Khan · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-19 21:18:32Z

Not a single advice solve my issue. Adjust Pan is almost as like work Adjust Resize. If i set Adjust Nothing than layout not move up but it hide my edittext of bottom that i am corrently writing. So after 24 hour of continuous searching I found this source and it solve my problem.

Sharryy · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-28 06:42:33Z

It might be late but I want to add few things. In Android Studio Version 4.0.1, and Gradle Version 6.1.1, the windowSoftInputMode will not work as expected if you are adding the following flags in your Activity :

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

After wasting lot of time, I have found that hack. In order for adjustResize or AdjustPanor any attribute of windowSoftInputMode to work properly, you need to remove that from your activity.

Do you have an idea on how to make it work while also having the flags active?

Antoine · Accepted Answer · 2021-11-07 18:33:57Z

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Add this line to the view:

view.requestFocus();

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Willey Hute · Accepted Answer · 2023-07-24 12:45:08Z

In my case, I wanted the screen contents to be pushed up with the soft keyboard only in one fragment but not in all the activity fragments.

So I dropped the solution of window params.

My solution is,

wrap the contents to be pushed up inside the Scrollview.

in the fragment onResume() add the below code,

val imm = activity?.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager // listen for the keyboard popping up and going down.. requireView().viewTreeObserver.addOnGlobalLayoutListener { // Check if the ScrollView is scrolled to the bottom val isScrolledToBottom = binding.scrollView.scrollY >= binding.scrollView.getChildAt(0).height - binding.scrollView.height if (imm.isActive && !isScrolledToBottom) { binding.scrollView.smoothScrollTo( 0, binding.scrollView.bottom ) } }

This will scroll the contents up when the keyboard is shown very similar to the Activity window_adjust_pan flag.

Muzammil Hussain · Accepted Answer · 2024-03-25 06:49:06Z

Method 1:

In AndroidManifest.xml

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize"

Method 2: In your Activity onCreate():

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

OR

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

Method 3: For Fragment onCreate():

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

Note: if It's still not working then check your activity and remove this property

android:fitsSystemWindows="true"

Fedor · Accepted Answer · 2024-04-11 19:17:24Z

For me only code below fixed the problem, with listner keyboard close:

ScrollView myScroll = findViewById(R.id.scroll1a); myScroll.requestLayout();

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