Android on-screen keyboard hiding Python Kivy TextInputs

Question

I am just beginning to learn how to develop in Kivy, but I have a problem with the keyboard on Android. When I have series of TextInputs running down to the bottom of the screen, I cannot see the fields hidden by the on-screen keyboard.

Here is the screen display with and without the keyboard:

without keyboard

With keyboard

Normally, I'd expect to be able to scroll the screen to display the relevant text input and select it but I cannot find out how to do so... :(

How can I handle this?

Answer 1

You can use the softinput_mode property of Window to choose what happens when the keyboard is opened, and optionally use the keyboard_height to know how big the keyboard is and move your textinputs appropriately.

However, this is only available in kivy master (version 1.9). There will be another stable release including it soon.

Answer 2

Use 'Window', not 'Windows', and place in main.py:

from kivy.core.window import Window
Window.softinput_mode = 'pan'