Floating Action Bar (not button) in Android

Question

I am working on Floating Action Bar on top of keyboard if user clicks on one of the EditText . I couldn't start on it and that's why not have any code to present.

I am confused on how to approach this problem. I am considering to use bottom sheet but I am still not getting confidence on it (I think android should have something better to use as base for this view ).

I don't need any code snippet but need a direction. I am new to Android and before jumping to implementation, I needed a direction to start with.

Any suggestions? I am implementing something similar to Outlook app.

Answer 1

So this floating toolbar is just a view that contains icons to press. This view should be located as the bottommost view on the screen. If you're using a ConstraintLayout use app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent" .

And the android:windowSoftInputMode for hosting activity can be set to adjustResize ( doc ).

So when the keyboard opens it pushes this bottommost view up (and now this view is right above the keyboard).