The default onscreen input method provided by Android OS.
Android Soft Keyboard is the onscreen keyboard provided by Android OS.
Key Events of Android soft keyboard
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Questions tagged [android-softkeyboard]
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Android: How to push button above soft keyboard
I've got a "save" button which I want to push up together with the soft keyboard. So when the user clicks an EditText in my layout, then the button has to stay above the keyboard. Now the button becomes hidden underneath the keyboard. How do you do…
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Show keyboard for edittext when fragment starts
When my fragment starts, I want my edittext to be in focus/let user to just start typing in it. I am able to get it in focus with requestFocus(), but I cannot get the keyboard to show up.
I have tried both this:
edit = (EditText)…
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Recyclerview not scrolling to end when keyboard opens
I am using recylerview in my application and whenever new element is added to recyclerview, it scrolls to last element by using
recyclerView.scrollToPosition(adapter.getCount());
But, whenever keyboard opens(because of editTextView), it resizes the…
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EditText in Listview loses focus when pressed on Android 4.x
I know there are a lot of similar questions out here
but I couldn't get any of the provided solutions working in a simple sample app.
The problem occurs when the softkeyboard is shown for the first time. As soon as it is shown, only by pressing the…
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HTML: Why does Android browser show "Go" instead of "Next" in keyboard?
I have an HTML login form that contains following elements (in this order):
input type=text (user name input)
input type=password (password)
input type=submit (Login button)
Why does the Android browser show "Go" button in soft keyboard instead of…
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Implementations of Emoji (Emoticon) View/Keyboard Layouts
I am trying to figure out how the emoji (emoticon) selections are implemented on the Facebook app and the Google Hangouts app. I looked into the SoftKeyboard Demo app in the Android API Samples but the display of these emoji views does not look…
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Set FAB (Floating Action Button) above keyboard
Already asked here but without a proper answer.
I want the FAB to float on top of the keyboard. that's it.
For example
Open a new Blank Activity template project with Android Studio
Change the Hello World TextView to EditText
See image below:
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How to hide Android soft keyboard on EditText
I have an Activity with some EditText fields and some buttons as a convenience for what normally would be used to populate those fields. However when we the user touches one of the EditText fields the Android soft keyboard automatically appears. I…
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Android: ScrollView not scrolling with keyboard out
I've got a layout with some views, from which one is an EditText. The layout easily fits on one page, BUT, when the soft keyboard is out, the layout doesn't scroll.
Here's a recap of my layout:
Xander
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Hiding ‘Bottom Navigation Bar’ whilst keyboard is present - Android
I have a small demo chat UI application. This application has a bottom navigation bar. I need the bottom navigation bar to hide when the keyboard appears.
Here is an example of the chat UI
As you can see when you click in the EditText element, the…
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How to hide the BottomNavigationView below keyboard with adjustResize set
According to the material design spec, when the keyboard appears, the BottomNavigationView should hide underneath it. However, if I set android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" in the Activity's manifest then the BottomNavigationView moves above…
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How to close Android Soft KeyBoard programmatically?
I am currently showing softkeyboard using the following code
InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
imm.toggleSoftInput (InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, InputMethodManager.RESULT_HIDDEN);
And…
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Hide keyboard when navigating from a fragment to another
I have a Fragment that contains an Edit Text. When the Edit Text is pressed, the keyboard is being shown. When pressed the Save button in the upper corner, the application returns to the previous fragment, but the keyboard persists.
I would like the…
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add view over keyboard android
in my android application I have a chat activity ,I use this code from android-chat-starter
the problem is in the emulator everything works fine , I tested it in many types of emulators (api >18 , api =18 , api <18)
but in testing in actual device…
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Hide soft keyboard after dialog dismiss
I want to hide soft keyboard after AlertDialog dismiss, but it's still visible. Here is my code:
alert = new AlertDialog.Builder(MyActivity.this);
imm =…
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