android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" is not working as it should be

Question

Even though this problem has many solutions in stackoverflow, I could not solve my problem. I have two edit texts in the screen, one on top, another is attached to bottom of the screen. Whenever I click on bottom edit text, softkey board comes over it. I already played with windowSoftInputMode.

I dont want other content of the screen to scroll up when I click on my bottom edittext.

This is my xml layout.

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:background="@color/background"
android:orientation="vertical"
>
<RelativeLayout
  android:layout_width="match_parent"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content" >
<EditText
   android:id="@+id/phone_number_edit_text_compose"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
   android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
   android:layout_marginLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
   android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
   android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/select_contact"
   android:background="@drawable/phone_edittext_background_selector"
   android:ems="10"
   android:hint="@string/phone_edittext_hint"
   android:inputType="phone"
   android:paddingBottom="12dp"
   android:paddingLeft="8dp"
   android:paddingTop="12dp"
   android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
   android:textColor="@color/white" />

<ImageButton
 android:id="@+id/selectcontact_compose"
 android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
 android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/phone_number_edit_text_compose"
 android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
 android:layout_toRightOf="@id/phone_number_edit_text_compose"
 android:background="@drawable/select_contact_background_selector"
 android:contentDescription="@string/select_contact_content_description"
 android:src="@drawable/select_contact_selector"
 android:layout_marginLeft="2dp" 
 android:paddingLeft="8dp"
 android:paddingRight="8dp"/>

<View
     android:id="@+id/view1"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="2px"
     android:layout_below="@id/phone_number_edit_text_compose"
     android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/redial_screen_distance_between_views"
     android:background="@drawable/separator" />

<LinearLayout
   android:id="@+id/repetition_layout"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_below="@+id/view1"
   android:clickable="true"
   android:onClick="RepetitionLayoutClickListener"
   android:orientation="horizontal"
   android:paddingBottom="@dimen/redial_screen_distance_between_views"
   android:paddingTop="@dimen/redial_screen_distance_between_views" 
   android:background="@drawable/repetition_layout_background_selector"
   android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
   android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin">

<TextView
  android:id="@+id/repetition_textview"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:text="@string/repetition"
  android:textColor="@color/green"
  android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

<Spinner
  android:id="@+id/repetition_spinner"
  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:background="@null"
  android:clickable="false"
  android:popupBackground="@color/dark_background" />

</LinearLayout>

<View
     android:id="@+id/view2"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="2px"
     android:layout_below="@id/repetition_layout"
     android:background="@drawable/separator" />

<LinearLayout
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_below="@+id/view2"
   android:orientation="horizontal"
   android:paddingBottom="@dimen/redial_screen_distance_between_views"
   android:paddingTop="@dimen/redial_screen_distance_between_views" 
   android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
   android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
   android:id="@+id/date_layout">

<TextView
   android:id="@+id/textView1"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:text="@string/d"
   android:textColor="@color/green"
   android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<TextView
   android:id="@+id/date_textview"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:text="@string/a"
   android:paddingLeft="5dp"
   android:textColor="@color/white"
   android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
</LinearLayout>
<View
     android:id="@+id/view3"
     android:layout_width="wrap_content"
     android:layout_height="2px"
     android:layout_below="@id/date_layout"
     android:background="@drawable/separator" />

<LinearLayout
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_below="@+id/view3"
   android:orientation="horizontal"
   android:paddingBottom="@dimen/redial_screen_distance_between_views"
   android:paddingTop="@dimen/redial_screen_distance_between_views" 
   android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
   android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
   android:id="@+id/time_layout">

<TextView
   android:id="@+id/textView2"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:text="@string/t"
   android:textColor="@color/green"
   android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
<TextView
   android:id="@+id/time_textview"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:text="@string/b"
   android:paddingLeft="5dp"
   android:textColor="@color/white"
   android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />
</LinearLayout>
</RelativeLayout>

<RelativeLayout
   android:id="@+id/compose_layout"
   android:layout_width="fill_parent"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:layout_weight="1">

<EditText
   android:id="@+id/editText1"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:background="@drawable/compose_message_background"
   android:hint="@string/compose_message_hint"
   android:paddingLeft="5dp"
   android:paddingRight="5dp"
   android:paddingTop="12dp"
   android:paddingBottom="12dp"
   android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
   android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
   android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceMedium"
   android:layout_toLeftOf="@+id/imageButton1" >

</EditText>

<ImageButton
   android:id="@+id/imageButton1"
   android:layout_width="wrap_content"
   android:layout_height="wrap_content"
   android:background="@drawable/send_button_background"
   android:src="@drawable/ic_action_send_now" 
   android:paddingRight="8dp"
   android:paddingLeft="8dp"
   android:layout_alignBottom="@+id/editText1"
   android:layout_alignTop="@+id/editText1"
   android:layout_alignParentRight="true"/>
</RelativeLayout>

</LinearLayout>

And this my manifest xml.

    <activity
        android:name="com.task.SmsScreen"
        android:label="@string/app_name" 
        android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
      >        
    </activity>

Solution 1

Remove your outer Linear Layout and place everything inside a Relative Layout. And align your bottom edit text to bottom of the layout by making alignParentBottom true. And main thing "Dont do anything to the android:windowSoftInputMode." Delete that line from manifest file. Let android take default.

Solution 2

You did not say which version of android are you compiling for and which version are you running on. But check if you perhaps use fullscreen option set by about android:windowFullscreen attribute or by setting FLAG_FULSCREEN. This prevents adjusrResize option to wrok properly on newer APIs. It works for API 10 (2.3.5).

Comments

[Admin]

Thank you but I dont want other content of the screen to scroll up when I click on my bottom edittext.

[FabioR]

This worked for me, although I really don't know why it would work with a Relative but not with a Linear

[Alin]

Thanks. I was using SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN for SystemUiVisibility which was causing adjustResize to not work correctly

[zihadrizkyef]

why should place it inside relative layout?

[Praveena]

@zihadrizkyef When the keyboard opens your root container becomes small but edit text is aligned to the bottom it will also move up with the parent

[zihadrizkyef]

@Praveena why I can't use LinearLayout? why should RelativeLayout?