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kaolick
kaolick

Reputation: 4857

Cannot scroll dropdown list of AutoCompleteTextView on Android

I have an AutoCompleteTextViewon an AlertDialog. The dropdown list with the suggestions gets partly covert by the keyboard (see screenshot). The result is that I cannot scroll the list.

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I already managed to move the dialog to the top of the screen to get more space. When I set android:dropDownHeight to a small value like 150dp the dropdown list is not covert by the keyboard anymore and scrolling works just fine but setting dropDownHeight to a fix value doesn't seem to be a good solution. I want to avoid using "magic numbers" because otherwise I have no guarantee that it will work on all screens.

How can I solve this?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 4543

Answers (3)

Mehran Turna
Mehran Turna

Reputation: 236

unfortunately the correct answer does not work and the only way to do it is to set a height as follows:

autoCompletetxtView.setDropDownHeight(int);

Upvotes: 0

kaolick
kaolick

Reputation: 4857

I finally got it working. This line of code did it for me. This way the dropdown list is always fitting with the keyboard.

alertDialog.getWindow().setSoftInputMode(WindowManager.LayoutParams.SOFT_INPUT_ADJUST_RESIZE);

Upvotes: 8

droidpl
droidpl

Reputation: 5892

That is because the window of your app is not being resized properly. Try to add in your manifest for this activity android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

Upvotes: 0

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