Edittext resizes in landscape mode when softkeyboard appears

Question

When I'm in landscape mode with an EditText on the screen, if I tap in the EditText to bring up the soft keyboard, the EditText expands in both dimensions to take up the entire screen not occupied by the keyboard! It returns to normal size when the keyboard is dismissed.

I've examined other commercial apps on my phone and many (but not all!) of them do the same thing. The EditText is in a TableRow, in a TableLayout and looks like this:

  android:id="@+id/editTextHeight"
  android:layout_width="100dp" 
  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
  android:singleLine="true"
  android:maxLength="25"
  android:hint="Height"

(Android 2.2, Droid Incredible, FWIW) Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You need to add android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" to prevent this behavior.

You can read more about it here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:imeOptions