How to avoid soft keyboard pushing up my layout? [duplicate]

Question

I did have the same problem and at first I added:

<activity
    android:name="com.companyname.applicationname"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan">

to my manifest file. But this alone did not solve the issue. Then as mentioned by Artem Russakovskii, I added:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:isScrollContainer="false">
</ScrollView>

in the scrollview.

This is what worked for me.

In my case, the reason the buttons got pushed up was because the view above them was a ScrollView, and it got collapsed with the buttons pushed up above the keyboard no matter what value of android:windowSoftInputMode I was setting.

I was able to avoid my bottom row of buttons getting pushed up by the soft keyboard by setting

android:isScrollContainer="false" 

on the ScrollView that sits above the buttons.

To solve this simply add android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan to that activity in android manifest file. for example

<activity 
    android:name="com.comapny.applicationname.activityname"
    android:screenOrientation="portrait"
    android:windowSoftInputMode="stateVisible|adjustPan"/>

For future readers.

I wanted specific control over this issue, so this is what I did:

From a fragment or activity, hide your other views (that aren't needed while the keyboard is up), then restore them to solve this problem:

rootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
     @Override
     public void onGlobalLayout() {
        Rect r = new Rect();
        rootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);
        int heightDiff = rootView.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);

        if (heightDiff > 100) { // if more than 100 pixels, its probably a keyboard...
           //ok now we know the keyboard is up...
           view_one.setVisibility(View.GONE);
           view_two.setVisibility(View.GONE);

        } else {
           //ok now we know the keyboard is down...
           view_one.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
           view_two.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);       
        }
     }
});

windowSoftInputMode will either pan or resize your activity layout. One thing that you can do is to attach an onFocusChanged listener to your EditText and when the user selects/taps the EditText then you hide or move your navigation buttons out of the screen. When the EditText loses focus then you can put the navigation buttons back at the bottom of the activity.