软键盘隐藏了我的edittext-android

Question

I have an edittext inside my layout but when this edittext is clicked, the soft keyboard comes up and covers the entire text field. As a result, I can't see what I'm typing and it's very annoying. Can anyone tell me if there's a way to solve this?

EDIT: I also tried to wrap the entire layout in a scroll view. I heard in that way I can get what I want but still nothing happens. Here is the code of my layout:

<ScrollView android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 android:layout_height="fill_parent"
 android:fillViewport="true"
 xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
      <RelativeLayout 
       android:id="@+id/mainLayoutMain"
       android:layout_width="match_parent"
       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
       android:background="@drawable/background"
       android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
       android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin" >

.................... Bunch of View....................
     </RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>

What else can I do?

PS I tried also to set these attributes in my manifest file:

 android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"

and:

 android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

and even:

 android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|adjustResize"

But nothing works. Everthing leads to the same result - the soft keyboard hides the edit text field.

Answer 1

One thing you can do is to make your root (parent) layout have android:layout_height="wrap_content" , this way the View will invalidate itself when soft keyboard is summoned, resize accordingly and if the EditText is aligned to bottom of this View (I recommend you use RelativeLayout as parent for this reason), it should raise aswell.

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EDIT:

Another thing:

Try setting this property into your manifest:

<application ... >
    <activity
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" ... >
        ...
    </activity>
    ...
</application>

And then change your root layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:layout_gravity="bottom"
android:background="@drawable/background_grey"
android:fillViewport="true"
android:focusable="true"
android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<RelativeLayout
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="bottom" >

<!-- Your Layout content here -->

</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>

I dont know about any other solution, mainly due to the fact that there is no known callback, or event of sorts to handle such behaviour in code (soft keyboard spawn).

So it all lies down to layout design and properties, and how the android system handles Input events depending on that.