Question

I have an EditText and when clicked a numberpad slides up via android:inputType="number". When this happens though it pushes the TextViews above off of the screen. I was wondering if there was a way for the numberpad to always be shown (then I can have fixed positions for everything)?

(I do not have a lot on the activity, so it is not like I am trying to save space.) I want the user to be able to see the TextViews that get pushed off the screen because they are updated based on the input. Here is what it looks like:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".Name" >

// TextViews that get pushed off

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/editText"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
    android:layout_marginBottom="71dp"
    android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/enter_input"
    android:ems="10"
    android:inputType="number" >

    <requestFocus />
</EditText>

</RelativeLayout>

Is this possible? Or is there a better way so everything is shown on the screen and so nothing is hidden?

Answer 1

You can add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible" to your activity in AndroidManifest.xml so it forces the keyboard to always show.

<activity android:name="[activity_path]" android:windowSoftInputMode="stateAlwaysVisible"/>