Android: Resize only parts of view with soft keyboard on screen

Question

I have a view with a Edittext field on top of an ImageView. When the keyboard comes up I want the window to resize so that EditText is no longer hidden by the keyboard. In the AndroidManifest file I declared android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" and the screen is resized but the issue is that I want the ImageView to not be re-sized. How can I make the ImageView unaffected?

Could I inflate an additional layout with just the ImageView or will the resize still affect it?

Answer 1

The full solution involves a few key points

• Use RelativeLayout, so that Views can be setup to overlap one another
• Align the EditText with the bottom of the Windows using android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
• Use android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" in your manifest, so that the bottom of the Window changes when the keyboard pops up (as you mentioned)
• Put the ImageView inside a ScrollView so that the ImageView can be larger than the Window, and disable scrolling on the ScrollView by using ScrollView#setEnabled(false)

Here is the layout file

<RelativeLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context="com.so3.MainActivity">
    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/scroll"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <ImageView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:adjustViewBounds="true"
            android:src="@drawable/stickfigures"/>
    </ScrollView>
    <EditText
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:background="@android:color/holo_blue_bright"
        android:text="Please enter text"
        android:textSize="40sp"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal"/>
</RelativeLayout>

Here is my Activity

package com.so3;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.widget.ScrollView;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        ScrollView sv = (ScrollView)findViewById(R.id.scroll);
        sv.setEnabled(false);
    }
}

My AndroidManifest

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    package="com.so3" >
    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name="com.so3.MainActivity"
            android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
            android:label="@string/app_name" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>
    </application>
</manifest>

Screen shots of my solution