Question

I have an activity where it has three EditText.
When I insert data in them the soft keyboard displayed and hide the rest EditTexts so i can not see what I am writing.

What I want is to make the activity a ListActivity so I can scroll to see the EditText but i had to reduce the space that the activity take place.

What I mean is how can I make an activity to take the half screen space?!

Answer 1

The best way to cope with the soft keyboard covering edit boxes is just to use a LinearLayout inside a ScrollView. Example…

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent">
  <LinearLayout 
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:gravity="center">

    <!-- Put your EditText widgets here -->

  </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>