How to avoid soft keyboard pushing up my layout? [duplicate]

I did have the same problem and at first I added:

<activity
    android:name="com.companyname.applicationname"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan">

to my manifest file. But this alone did not solve the issue. Then as mentioned by Artem Russakovskii, I added:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:isScrollContainer="false">
</ScrollView>

in the scrollview.

This is what worked for me.

In my case, the reason the buttons got pushed up was because the view above them was a ScrollView, and it got collapsed with the buttons pushed up above the keyboard no matter what value of android:windowSoftInputMode I was setting.

I was able to avoid my bottom row of buttons getting pushed up by the soft keyboard by setting

android:isScrollContainer="false" 

on the ScrollView that sits above the buttons.

To solve this simply add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan to that activity in android manifest file. for example

<activity 
    android:name="com.comapny.applicationname.activityname"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan"/>