Android adjustpan not working after the first time

Question

My problem: starting from the second time the software keyboard is shown on the screen, it entirely hides my EditText.

Attribute android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" has been specified in the AndroidManifest.xml, but it works only the first time.

I have the following layout:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>    <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="fill_parent"    android:orientation="vertical" >    <LinearLayout        android:layout_width="match_parent"        android:layout_height="464dp"        android:gravity="top"        android:orientation="vertical"        android:paddingLeft="16dp"        android:paddingRight="16dp" >        <ListView            android:id="@+id/list"            android:layout_width="match_parent"            android:layout_height="0dp"            android:layout_weight="10"            android:background="#E3E3E2"            android:gravity="top" />        <LinearLayout            android:layout_width="match_parent"            android:layout_height="wrap_content"            android:orientation="horizontal" >            <EditText                android:id="@+id/addListText"                android:layout_width="0dp"                android:layout_height="48dp"                android:layout_weight="10"                android:contentDescription="@string/addItemContentDescription"                android:gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"                android:inputType="textLongMessage"                android:textColor="#E3E3E2"                android:visibility="gone" />            <ImageButton                android:id="@+id/addTextListButton"                android:layout_width="0dp"                android:layout_height="48dp"                android:layout_weight="1"                android:layout_gravity="right"                android:background="@android:color/transparent"                android:contentDescription="@string/addItemButton"                android:scaleType="fitCenter"                android:src="@drawable/plus_add"                android:visibility="gone" />        </LinearLayout>    </LinearLayout>    <LinearLayout        android:layout_width="match_parent"        android:layout_height="fill_parent"        android:gravity="bottom|center_horizontal"        android:orientation="horizontal"        android:paddingLeft="16dp"        android:paddingRight="16dp" >        <ImageButton            android:id="@+id/syncListsButton"            android:layout_width="64dp"            android:layout_height="match_parent"            android:src="@android:drawable/ic_popup_sync" />        <ImageButton            android:id="@+id/showOrHide"            android:layout_width="64dp"            android:layout_height="match_parent" />        <ImageButton            android:id="@+id/delListButton"            android:layout_width="64dp"            android:layout_height="match_parent"            android:src="@android:drawable/ic_menu_delete" />    </LinearLayout></LinearLayout>

The "showOrHide" button shows/hides the "addListText"/"addTextListButton" combo.

When the EditText is shown for the first time and I touch it, the soft keyboard appears on the screen and the "addListText"/"addTextListButton" combo is panned correctly. When I hide the keyboard and then show it again, the keyboard covers completely my addListText editbox!

Any idea on what's going on? I'm testing it on Android 4.2.2.

Please help! Thanks :-)

edit: I've also tried to put the first LinearLayout inside a ScrollView but it doesn't work!

Chirag Shah 1,23521127 · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-09 07:51:05Z

subclassed EditText and overridden the method onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) like this:

   @Override   public boolean onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)   {      if(keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK)        {            clearFocus();        }   return super.onKeyPreIme(keyCode, event);   }

Now when the back key is pressed, the EditText lost the focus. Then tapping it again adjustpan will work.

Weird but does not work for me. Maybe it's because the EditText is inside a fragment… will have to investigate :( — Oct 16 '14 at 7:33
Looks like I found the solution: there has to be at least one parent that is focusable, otherwise of course, the focus cannot be cleared ;) — Oct 16 '14 at 7:42

dbar 575512 · Answer 2 · 2014-09-24 12:34:54Z

This may seem a bit silly but I ran into this problem when I set the property gravity of my EditText to either 'center_horizontal' or 'center'. Remove it and you won't run into the problem of the keyboard hiding the EditText the second time (and subsequent ones) when the keyboard comes out.

Amazing! And by amazing I mean it's amazing how apparently unrelated things can mess things up in Android. — Dec 23 '14 at 13:58
What a ridiculous bug.... Thank you for realizing this though... — Feb 19 '15 at 20:30
OK, I reported that to Google: code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=182191 — Aug 7 '15 at 8:04

Mihai 334 · Answer 3 · 2016-02-07 02:55:43Z

Here is the code I was originally using that ran into this problem:

    <EditText        android:layout_width="250dp"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:gravity="center" />

When I removed the center gravity line from the EditText, the panning worked:

android:gravity="center"

I worked around it by wrapping the EditText in a FrameLayout and centering the entire EditText in the FrameLayout. The one issue it causes is that the EditText will be at least the width of the hinttext, so the first few characters/words typed won't be centered. This was fine for me but your mileage may vary :)

<FrameLayout    android:layout_width="250dp"    android:layout_height="wrap_content">    <EditText        android:layout_width="wrap_content"        android:layout_height="wrap_content"        android:layout_gravity="center" /></FrameLayout>

Android adjustpan not working after the first time

Android adjustpan not working after the first time

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