Question

I have a problem with the layout. I want to place one textedit and one button at the bottom of my activity. And then I want a TextView component that fills all free space on my activity’s layout.

I have a big text in the bigText component that’s why I need to use the ScrollView.

I have a few questions:

1. I don’t understand, why I get a soft keyboard when I place the ScrollView component? But I don’t get this keyboard without the scrollview! If I turn off the soft keyboard, like this:

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

   Then how I can use my EditText?

2. Could you help me with my layout? The problem is: when I use the ScrollView – it fills all phone’s display I even see my button and EditText which should place below the ScrollView (i don’t see completely bottom of my layout). How can I fix this?

And that’s my fail attempt of layout:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/scrollView1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/bigText"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="TextView" />

    </ScrollView>

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

        <TextView
            android:id="@+id/textView1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Search string: " />

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/editText1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_weight="1"
            android:ems="10"
            android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal" >
        </EditText>

        <Button
            android:id="@+id/button1"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:text="Go >>" />

    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

Simply:
getWindow().setSoftInputMode( WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_STATE_ALWAYS_HIDDEN );