Can I have "adjustResize" soft keyboard behavior and a toolbar behind the status bar at the same time?

Question

In my Android app, it is vital for me to use the adjustResize behavior for the soft keyboard. So users can scroll down to other UI elements, such as a "continue" button.

I've noticed that that adjustResize only works when I have both the Manifest setting and android:fitsSystemWindows="true" in the layout root element. (Please correct me if I'm wrong!)

But with android:fitsSystemWindows="true" the Toolbar no longer sits behind the Status Bar. Which makes perfect sense, but isn't what I want.

When the Toolbar sits behind it, the status bar has a matching darker shade of my Toolbar's color. What I have with android:fitsSystemWindows="true" is a colorless status bar and a toolbar that sits 24dp lower than I want it.

I will give up the matching colored Status Bar for the sake of the adjustResize keyboard behavior. But my question is, is it possible to have both? Dare I dream for both Beauty and Accessibility?

Anyone more experienced know the magical combination of settings? Or perhaps, as a work around, a way to explicitly color the status bar?

fyi:

These are Activities with RelativeLayout root elements, and there are ListViews and EditTexts in some of them.

Toolbar is android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar

Potentially relevant Style items:

<style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"> <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item> <item name="windowActionBar">false</item> <item name="android:windowContentOverlay">@null</item> 

PS - I've read dozens of similar-ish questions on soft keyboard behavior, but was unable to find anything helpful on unintended effects to the Toolbar. Also vice versa, lots of Style questions about toolbar/statusbar behavior, but nothing seemingly relevant. Never the less, sorry if I missed something!

Many thanks in advance!

Edit

I've been playing with removing android:fitsSystemWindows="true" and adding more ScrollViews or trying to get everything into the same ScrollView. This does nothing.

If I remove android:fitsSystemWindows="true" then the bottom of the UI is "glued" to the bottom of the screen -- it does not "resize" to instead glue to the top of the soft keyboard like I would expect it to do with adjustResize set in the Manifest.

Setting android:fitsSystemWindows="true" in the root view makes the UI resize like I would expect -- but it also makes the toolbar no longer draw behind the statusBar.

So I am still exactly where I started :(

Adding a layout XML code sample:

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"     android:id="@+id/root"     android:layout_width="match_parent"     android:layout_height="match_parent">  <!-- CoordinatorLayout because this view uses SnackBars -->      <!-- Relative Layout to lock "continue" button bar to bottom -->     <RelativeLayout         android:layout_width="match_parent"         android:layout_height="match_parent">          <!-- Main content, that scrolls with or without keyboard -->         <!-- Correctly sits behind transparent Status Bar -->         <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView             android:layout_width="match_parent"             android:layout_height="wrap_content"             android:paddingBottom="@dimen/footer_persistent_height">             <RelativeLayout                 android:layout_width="match_parent"                 android:layout_height="match_parent">                 <!-- ACTUAL VIEWS DELETED FOR BREVITY / CLARITY -->             </RelativeLayout>         </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>           <!-- Bottom nav bar -->         <!-- Correctly sits at bottom of UI when keyboard is not visible -->         <!-- PROBLEM: Not accessible when soft keyboard is visible -->         <LinearLayout             android:layout_width="match_parent"             android:layout_height="wrap_content"             android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"             style="?android:attr/buttonBarStyle">              <Button                 android:id="@+id/skip_button"                 android:theme="@style/ButtonContinueGrey"                 android:onClick="skipClickHandler"                 android:layout_width="match_parent"                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"                 android:layout_weight=".5"                 style="?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"/>              <Button                 android:id="@+id/button_progress"                 android:theme="@style/ButtonContinueColored"                 android:onClick="continueClickHandler"                 android:layout_width="match_parent"                 android:layout_height="wrap_content"                 android:layout_weight=".5"                 style="?android:attr/buttonBarButtonStyle"/>         </LinearLayout>      </RelativeLayout> </android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout> 

Answer 1

I have found a solution that seems to work well with the OS. First set fitSystemWindows = true to the view you want to be reacting to the window and then tell it to ignore the top padding:

  ViewCompat.setOnApplyWindowInsetsListener(yourView, (view, insets) ->       ViewCompat.onApplyWindowInsets(yourView,           insets.replaceSystemWindowInsets(insets.getSystemWindowInsetLeft(), 0,               insets.getSystemWindowInsetRight(), insets.getSystemWindowInsetBottom()))   ); 

Read more here: https://medium.com/google-developers/why-would-i-want-to-fitssystemwindows-4e26d9ce1eec