Android : Showing keyboard moves my components up, i want to hide them instead

Question

I have added a LinearLayOut having some buttons My screen is RelativeLayOut it self

Here is the code for that linear layout manager

<LinearLayout     android:orientation="horizontal"     android:gravity="bottom"     android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"     android:layout_height="wrap_content"     android:layout_width="fill_parent"     android:id="@+id/Footer"     android:layout_marginBottom="5dp"> 

Here is the problem:

There is an EditText component on the top and it pops a soft keyboard on the screen , and brings my Footer manager on top of the keyboard and eventually SHATTERS my whole UI.

What is the exact solution?

P.S. I have removed android:gravity="bottom" and android:layout_alignParentBottom="true" one by one but with hard luck i did not get desired result.

Thanks

Answer 1

Add android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" to manifest - to the corresponding activity:

  <activity android:name="MyActivity"     ...     android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"     ...   </activity> 

Answer 2

You probably want

<activity      ...    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing">  </activity> 

That will prevent any layout changes when the soft keyboard is shown.

There is probably some confusion over this since it's currently missing from the documentation at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#wsoft