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phmsk
phmsk

Reputation: 186

Softkeyboard moves button in LinearLayout

Hi I'm designing a navigation application for as a Uni project. I'm having problems with getting the button to stay underneath the soft keyboard when it appears. I'm using LinearLayout as a frame. I've searched a lot and tried different techniques but nothing seems to work.

a picture of the problem

Here is my XML file:

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

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="0px"
        android:layout_height="0px"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true" />

    <requestFocus />

    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_weight="1.0"
        android:orientation="vertical" >

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/navi_searchfield1"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:ems="10"
            android:hint="Current location" >
        </EditText>

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/navi_listview1"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dp">
        </ListView>

        <EditText
            android:id="@+id/navi_searchfield2"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:ems="10"
            android:hint="Destination" />

        <ListView
            android:id="@+id/navi_listview2"
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
        </ListView>

    </LinearLayout>

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/start_navigation"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="40dip"
        android:background="@drawable/start"
        android:textColor="#ffffff"
        android:text="Start navigation" />

</LinearLayout>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1614

Answers (1)

Imran Rana
Imran Rana

Reputation: 11889

Add android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" to your activity in AndroidManifest.xml as:

    <activity
                android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"
.
.
.                
    </activity>

This will prevent SoftKeyboard from moving your button, giving you an output like: enter image description here

You can use the button even though the keyboard is shown by scrolling on the screen. But I think you probably can't show the keyboard above the button because I worked with SoftKeyboard and it uses:

  android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"

So, you can only keep your layout safe from being pushed by SoftKeyboard.

Upvotes: 1

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