#Android studio keypad layout how to#

If the screen available height suddenly shrink by a certain amount, we can infer it is caused by the keyboard pop up.įind a root view we like to listen to the height change. In the mean while, what we can do is set a listener to our layout view to detect height changes. Sounds great except this feature requires API level 30, which means if we want to ship an app today, this feature is not going to work on most Android devices on the market.

On September of 2020, Google released android 11, which finally have the ability to check soft keyboard visibility. Look at Google’s treatment to the Android soft keyboard. Google didn’t provide us an API to check soft keyboard state, or callback for such events. The first result on StackOverflow is probably this one.

#Android studio keypad layout how to#

Manually do the shift up shift down ourselvesįirst and foremost: Problem: How to detect soft keyboard open and close.

change some other values on the fly (font size, margin values…).

mark some views as GONE when detecting the keyboard.

change to a layout to that support resizing (wrap it in a ScrollView).

Options we have when adjustResize don’t work Like items in RelativeLayout with weight or page wrapped in ScrollView.īut if we have a ConstraintLayout with fixed margin for all its widgets, then adjustResize simply won’t work because there is nothing to resize. Notice adjustResize only have effect on layouts that are resizable.

This is the baby level basic for every Android developer. ĪdjustPan shift the whole page up to make room for the keyboardĪdjustResize resize the page, shrink whatever it can to display in a smaller window In our AndroidManifest file we can set the windowSoftInputMode for the activity.