Is there any way in Android to get the height of virtual keyboard of device

Question

Is there any way in Android to get the height of the virtual keyboard displayed on the device in run time? Actually I want to show a text box above the keyboard.

Answer 1

To solve this I have written a keyboardHeightProvider which can calculate the height of a floating soft keyboard. The Activity can be set to adjustNone or adjustPan in the AndroidManifest.xml.

https://github.com/siebeprojects/samples-keyboardheight

Siebe

Answer 2

I tried many suggested methods for this, but none seemed to work for Android SDL. I think this is either because the SDL display is "full screen" or that it sits within an "AbsoluteLayout" and therefore the height of the "View" never actually changes. This method worked for me:

Getting the dimensions of the soft keyboard

Window mRootWindow = getWindow(); View mRootView = mRootWindow.getDecorView().findViewById(android.R.id.content); mRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(     new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {     public void onGlobalLayout(){         Rect r = new Rect();         View view = mRootWindow.getDecorView();         view.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);         // r.left, r.top, r.right, r.bottom     }     });