Phonegap Android keyboard covers input elements scrolling is disabled

Question

I've tried many different solutions and nothing is quite what I want. What I want is for the keyboard to show on top of the content (keeping the content the same size) while being able to scroll to input elements that are covered by the keyboard.

Every solution I've tried will either give me one or the other, but not both.

Solutions I've tried:

• Solution here. Adding android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" and android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden" to the main activity in my AndroidManifest.xml.
• The above solution using "adjustResize" instead of "adjustPan".
• Solution here. Adding to my confix.xml.

Using adjustPan keeps my elements the same size, but disables scrolling. Using adjustResize resizes the entire page, making everything miniature. Keeping default settings, only the wrapper containing the input elements is resized, but scrolling is enabled.

I managed to find the exact same problem (unanswered) here. They were able to "fix" it by resizing their app to 150% and scroll to the covered input element, but like they said it's not ideal.

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

For most of the cases in config.xml change the full screen preference to false. that'll do the trick.

<preference name="fullscreen" value="false" />

Answer 2

I have the most efficient solution to scroll into input automatically and make it visible. First you need to add the ionic keyboard plugin (works on any cordova project) because the eventlistener 'showkeyboard' does not work now.

cordova plugin add ionic-plugin-keyboard --save

Then on your event handler of 'keyboardshow' event add the following code:

window.addEventListener('native.keyboardshow', function(e){ 
    setTimeout(function() {
        document.activeElement.scrollIntoViewIfNeeded();
    }, 100);
});

P.S: This is supported only on Android (Chrome) and Safari. :D

Answer 3

I had the same problem for android project output and in my situation the input elements were not moving upwards the keyboard . And after a-night-taking search (including those config changes and others) I found that in my angularjs cordova project

StatusBar.overlaysWebView(true);
StatusBar.hide();

lines which are in my controller causing that annoying problem . And I was using those lines for ios statusbar issues now I took those in an if condition and the problem is fixed.

if( device.platform=="iOS")
  {
   StatusBar.overlaysWebView(true);
   StatusBar.hide();
  }

Answer 4

You can detect focused textarea or input, then wait a while until keyboard is shown and finally scroll the page to reach focused input.

$("#textarea").focus(function(e) {
    var container = $('#container'),
        scrollTo = $('#textarea');

    setTimeout((function() {
        container.animate({
        scrollTop: scrollTo.offset().top - container.offset().top + container.scrollTop()
        });
    }), 500);

});

When keyboard is hidden the textarea keeps focused, so if it's clicked again the keyboard will show and the container needs to scroll again to show the input

$("#textarea").click(function(e) {
    e.stopPropagation();
    var container = $('#container'), //container element to be scrolled, contains input
        scrollTo = $('#textarea');

    setTimeout((function() {
        container.animate({
        scrollTop: scrollTo.offset().top - container.offset().top + container.scrollTop()
        });
    }), 500);
});

Hope this helps, cheers!