Phonegap: Resize webview on keyboard display in Android

Question

I have a modal similar (with fixed positioning) to what facebook has for the comments in feed/chat in messenger in the latest android release. What I want looks similar to this:

So when you focus on the input the keyboard opens and shrinks the webview. It's not working by default and I can't find any solution.

I tried to add this preference to config.xml but adjustResize is not doing anything and stateVisible just opens the keyboard when I start the app.

<preference name="android-windowSoftInputMode" value="stateVisible|adjustResize" />

Which is weird. As of the Android Documentation adjustResize should do this:

The activity's main window is always resized to 
make room for the soft keyboard on screen.

I'm using Phonegap 3.0 and I have a Nexus 5 with kitkat for testing.

Answer 1

On my project created with phonegap 3.0, by default the app was full screen activity and the keyboard hid the app and the app was not resized.

I edited config.xml and set <preference name="fullscreen" value="false" />, then the app was no more be full screen and when the soft keyboard was opened, the app was resized to fit the rest of the screen.

Answer 2

I found the solution.. for specially "sencha/phonegap/cordova" users.

Edit the Main activity in android manifest file add this attribute.

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing"

 <activity android:configChanges="orientation|keyboardHidden|keyboard|screenSize|locale" android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustNothing"  android:label="@string/app_name" android:launchMode="singleTop" android:name="com.company.appName.MainActivity" android:screenOrientation="portrait" android:theme="@android:style/Theme.Black.NoTitleBar">
<intent-filter>
    <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
    <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter> 
</activity>