Question

Background

I have the next layout of my activity:

• vertical LinearLayout
  • TabHost with a viewPager.
  • “status bar” (an imageView/textView) .

Sometimes , in the viewPager , i have a fragment that has an EditText.

The problem

On some screens (like the galaxy mini) , i’ve noticed that when you click on an editText (in order to write into it) , the softkeyboard hides everything , so you are left only with the actionBar , the tabs and the status bar .

What I’ve tried

That’s why i’ve decided to add the next flags on the manifest for this activity :

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize|stateHidden"

This looked like the perfect solution – it hides the action bar , the tabs , and even the status bar when typing , leaving enough space for the editText to show (and also scrolls to it) .

However , testing it on larger screens (like the one of galaxy S3) , this has caused the softKeyboard to cover the editText in the cases where the editText was at the bottom.

I’ve tried to remove the adjustPan flag , which works fine for the large screen , but then on the small screen , even though it has scrolled to the editText , the status bar hides it .

I’ve also tried to set the isScrollContainer to true to some views , hoping that it will cause them to resize upon editing , but it didn’t do anything.

The question

What can i do in order to fix this issue , and handle all kinds of screens ?

I could check the type of the screen and use the appropriate flags programmatically (like here) , but i’m not sure what should be the rules (density/resolution/screen size) , and if i really cover all types of them .

Answer 1

try android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan

with additional functionality

Make another class like this one

package com.example.customLayout;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.widget.RelativeLayout;

public class MyRelativeLayout extends RelativeLayout
{
    private OnRelativeLayoutChangeListener layoutChangeListener;

    public interface OnRelativeLayoutChangeListener 
    {
        void onLayoutPushUp();
        void onLayoutPushDown();
    }

    public MyRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet) 
    {
        super(context, attributeSet);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) 
    {
        try 
        {
            final int proposedheight = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
            final int actualHeight = getHeight();
            if (actualHeight > proposedheight)
            {
                // Keyboard is shown
                layoutChangeListener.onLayoutPushUp();
            }
            else if(actualHeight < proposedheight)
            {
                // Keyboard is hidden
                layoutChangeListener.onLayoutPushDown();
            }
        } 
        catch (Exception e) 
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }   

        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }

    public void setLayoutChangeListener(OnRelativeLayoutChangeListener layoutChangeListener) 
    {
        this.layoutChangeListener = layoutChangeListener;
    }

    public OnRelativeLayoutChangeListener getLayoutChangeListener() 
    {
        return layoutChangeListener;
    }
}

now make a custome view of this class as parent in your layout xml file like this

<com.example.customLayout.MyRelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:custom="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/com.example.customLayout"

    android:id="@+id/customRelativeLayout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">


// your original layout file

</com.example.customLayout.MyRelativeLayout>

try following code in your java file

myRelativeLayout=(MyRelativeLayout)findViewById(R.int.customRelativeLayout);

 myRelativeLayout.setLayoutChangeListener(new OnRelativeLayoutChangeListener() {

                public void onLayoutPushUp() 
                {
                    Controller_Test1.tabWidget.setVisibility(View.GONE);    
                }

                public void onLayoutPushDown() 
                {
                    Controller_Test1.tabWidget.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                }
            });