How to adjust layout when soft keyboard appears
I would like to adjust/re-size the layout when the soft-keyboard activated, as below:
Before and After:
Found couple resources in SO:
- How to keep all fields and texts visible while the soft keyboard is shown
- android soft keyboard spoils layout when appears
- Adjust layout when soft keyboard is on
But the questions & answers are rather ambiguous, here's the question with clearer picture of what I want.
Requirements:
- It should work on phone with any screen sizes.
- Noticed that the margin/padding space at "FACEBOOK" and "Sign Up for Facebook" has changed before and after.
- No scroll view is involved.
Just add
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
in your AndroidManifest.xml where you declare this particular activity and this will adjust the layout resize option.
some source code below for layout design
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:orientation="vertical" >
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:text="FaceBook"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="username" >
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
<EditText
android:id="@+id/editText2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="password" />
<Button
android:id="@+id/button1"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_below="@+id/editText2"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_marginLeft="18dp"
android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
android:text="Log In" />
<TextView
android:id="@+id/textView2"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_marginTop="17dp"
android:gravity="center"
android:text="Sign up for facebook"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
</RelativeLayout>
This question has beeen asked a few years ago and "Secret Andro Geni" has a good base explanation and "tir38" also made a good attempt on the complete solution, but alas there is no complete solution posted here. I've spend a couple of hours figuring out things and here is my complete solution with detailed explanation at the bottom:
<?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:fillViewport="true">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:padding="10dp">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_above="@+id/mainLayout"
android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
android:id="@+id/headerLayout">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:gravity="center_horizontal">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/textView1"
android:text="facebook"
android:textStyle="bold"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
android:id="@+id/mainLayout"
android:orientation="vertical">
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/editText1"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="Email or Phone"
android:inputType="textVisiblePassword">
<requestFocus />
</EditText>
<EditText
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:id="@+id/editText2"
android:ems="10"
android:hint="Password"
android:inputType="textPassword" />
<Button
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
android:id="@+id/button1"
android:text="Log In"
android:onClick="login" />
</LinearLayout>
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
android:layout_below="@+id/mainLayout"
android:id="@+id/footerLayout">
<LinearLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentBottom="true">
<RelativeLayout
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content">
<TextView
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:id="@+id/textView2"
android:text="Sign Up for Facebook"
android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/helpButton"
android:ellipsize="marquee"
android:singleLine="true"
android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall" />
<Button
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:id="@+id/helpButton"
android:text="\?"
android:onClick="help" />
</RelativeLayout>
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</RelativeLayout>
</ScrollView>
And in AndroidManifest.xml, don't forget to set:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
on the <activity> tag that you want such layout.
Thoughts:
I've realized that RelativeLayout are the layouts that span thru all available space and are then resized when the keyboard pops up.
And LinearLayout are layouts that don't get resized in the resizing process.
That's why you need to have 1 RelativeLayout immediately after ScrollView to span thru all available screen space. And you need to have a LinearLayout inside a RelativeLayout else your insides would get crushed when the resizing occurs. Good example is "headerLayout". If there wouldn't be a LinearLayout inside that RelativeLayout "facebook" text would get crushed and wouldn't be shown.
In the "facebook" login pictures posted in the question I've also noticed that the whole login part (mainLayout) is centered vertical in relation to the whole screen, hence the attribute:
android:layout_centerVertical="true"
on the LinearLayout layout. And because mainLayout is inside a LinearLayout this means that that part does't get resized (again see picture in question).