Getting the dimensions of the soft keyboard

Question

Is there a way to know the size of the keyboard that is shown in the screen?

I am using Cocos2dx for programming, but I want to know the height of the keyboard shown in screen in the part of Android or the part of Cocos, it does not matter.

I know that Keyboard has a getHeight() method but I don't want to create new keyboards, i want to use the default one.

Answer 1

We did it with this

myLayout.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {                  @Override                 public void onGlobalLayout() {                      Rect r = new Rect();                     parent.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);                      int screenHeight = parent.getRootView().getHeight();                     int heightDifference = screenHeight - (r.bottom - r.top);                     Log.d("Keyboard Size", "Size: " + heightDifference);                  }             }); 

We only resize views with the keyboard, so we could use this.

Answer 2

Rect r = new Rect(); View rootview = this.getWindow().getDecorView(); // this = activity rootview.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r); 

Result of this is the amount of space your application uses on screen (works even when activity is not resized). Obviously remaining screen space will be used by the keyboard ( if its visible)

Found id up here: https://github.com/freshplanet/ANE-KeyboardSize/blob/master/android/src/com/freshplanet/ane/KeyboardSize/getKeyboardY.java