Soft keyboard open and close listener in an activi

Question

I have an Activity where there are 5 EditTexts. When the user clicks on the first EditText, the soft keyboard opens to enter some value in it. I want to set some other View's visibility to Gone when the soft keyboard opens and also when the user clicks on the first EditText and also when the soft keyboard closes from the same EditText on the back button press. Then I want to set some other View's visibility to visible.

Is there any listener or callback or any hack for when the soft keyboard opens from a click on the first EditText in Android?

Answer 1

You can use my Rx extension function (Kotlin).

/**
 * @return [Observable] to subscribe of keyboard visibility changes.
 */
fun AppCompatActivity.keyboardVisibilityChanges(): Observable<Boolean> {

    // flag indicates whether keyboard is open
    var isKeyboardOpen = false

    val notifier: BehaviorSubject<Boolean> = BehaviorSubject.create()

    // approximate keyboard height
    val approximateKeyboardHeight = dip(100)

    // device screen height
    val screenHeight: Int = getScreenHeight()

    val visibleDisplayFrame = Rect()

    val viewTreeObserver = window.decorView.viewTreeObserver

    val onDrawListener = ViewTreeObserver.OnDrawListener {

        window.decorView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(visibleDisplayFrame)

        val keyboardHeight = screenHeight - (visibleDisplayFrame.bottom - visibleDisplayFrame.top)

        val keyboardOpen = keyboardHeight >= approximateKeyboardHeight

        val hasChanged = isKeyboardOpen xor keyboardOpen

        if (hasChanged) {
            isKeyboardOpen = keyboardOpen
            notifier.onNext(keyboardOpen)
        }
    }

    val lifeCycleObserver = object : GenericLifecycleObserver {
        override fun onStateChanged(source: LifecycleOwner, event: Lifecycle.Event?) {
            if (source.lifecycle.currentState == Lifecycle.State.DESTROYED) {
                viewTreeObserver.removeOnDrawListener(onDrawListener)
                source.lifecycle.removeObserver(this)
                notifier.onComplete()
            }
        }
    }

    viewTreeObserver.addOnDrawListener(onDrawListener)
    lifecycle.addObserver(lifeCycleObserver)

    return notifier
            .doOnDispose {
                viewTreeObserver.removeOnDrawListener(onDrawListener)
                lifecycle.removeObserver(lifeCycleObserver)
            }
            .onTerminateDetach()
            .hide()
}

Example:

(context as AppCompatActivity)
                    .keyboardVisibilityChanges()
                    .subscribeBy { isKeyboardOpen ->
                        // your logic
                    }

Answer 2

For the case of adjustResize and FragmentActivity accepted solution from @Jaap doesn't work for me.

Here is my solution:

private ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener keyboardLayoutListener = new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
    private int contentDiff;
    private int rootHeight;
    @Override
    public void onGlobalLayout() {
        View contentView = getWindow().findViewById(Window.ID_ANDROID_CONTENT);
        if (rootHeight != mDrawerLayout.getRootView().getHeight()) {
            rootHeight = mDrawerLayout.getRootView().getHeight();
            contentDiff = rootHeight - contentView.getHeight();
            return;
        }
        int newContentDiff = rootHeight - contentView.getHeight();
        if (contentDiff != newContentDiff) {
            if (contentDiff < newContentDiff) {
                onShowKeyboard(newContentDiff - contentDiff);
            } else {
                onHideKeyboard();
            }
            contentDiff = newContentDiff;
        }
    }
};

Answer 3

Different implementation of a soft-keyboard-listener that DOES NOT RELY ON WINDOW-RESIZING & therefore also works nicely in the multi-window world. it has its own quirks of course, but imo they are nothing compared to the complete brokenness that is multi-window&window-resize-detection together.

https://github.com/sqrt1764/AndroidSoftKeyboardListener

Would appreciate ideas for improvements!

Answer 4

For Activity:

    final View activityRootView = findViewById(R.id.activityRoot);
activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() {
                Rect r = new Rect();

                activityRootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

                int heightDiff = view.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
                if (heightDiff > 100) { 
                 //enter your code here
                }else{
                 //enter code for hid
                }
            }
        });

For Fragment:

    view = inflater.inflate(R.layout.live_chat_fragment, null);
view.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
            @Override
            public void onGlobalLayout() {
                Rect r = new Rect();
                //r will be populated with the coordinates of your view that area still visible.
                view.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

                int heightDiff = view.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
                if (heightDiff > 500) { // if more than 100 pixels, its probably a keyboard...

                }
            }
        });

Answer 5

This only works when android:windowSoftInputMode of your activity is set to adjustResize in the manifest. You can use a layout listener to see if the root layout of your activity is resized by the keyboard.

I use something like the following base class for my activities:

public class BaseActivity extends Activity {
    private ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener keyboardLayoutListener = new ViewTreeObserver.OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
            int heightDiff = rootLayout.getRootView().getHeight() - rootLayout.getHeight();
            int contentViewTop = getWindow().findViewById(Window.ID_ANDROID_CONTENT).getTop();

            LocalBroadcastManager broadcastManager = LocalBroadcastManager.getInstance(BaseActivity.this);

            if(heightDiff <= contentViewTop){
                onHideKeyboard();

                Intent intent = new Intent("KeyboardWillHide");
                broadcastManager.sendBroadcast(intent);
            } else {
                int keyboardHeight = heightDiff - contentViewTop;
                onShowKeyboard(keyboardHeight);

                Intent intent = new Intent("KeyboardWillShow");
                intent.putExtra("KeyboardHeight", keyboardHeight);
                broadcastManager.sendBroadcast(intent);
            }
        }
    };

    private boolean keyboardListenersAttached = false;
    private ViewGroup rootLayout;

    protected void onShowKeyboard(int keyboardHeight) {}
    protected void onHideKeyboard() {}

    protected void attachKeyboardListeners() {
        if (keyboardListenersAttached) {
            return;
        }

        rootLayout = (ViewGroup) findViewById(R.id.rootLayout);
        rootLayout.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(keyboardLayoutListener);

        keyboardListenersAttached = true;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();

        if (keyboardListenersAttached) {
            rootLayout.getViewTreeObserver().removeGlobalOnLayoutListener(keyboardLayoutListener);
        }
    }
}

The following example activity uses this to hide a view when the keyboard is shown and show it again when the keyboard is hidden.

The xml layout:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              android:id="@+id/rootLayout"
              android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="match_parent"
              android:orientation="vertical">              

    <ScrollView
        android:id="@+id/scrollView"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        >

        <!-- omitted for brevity -->

    </ScrollView>

    <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/bottomContainer"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        >

        <!-- omitted for brevity -->

    </LinearLayout>

</LinearLayout>

And the activity:

public class TestActivity extends BaseActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.test_activity);

        attachKeyboardListeners();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onShowKeyboard(int keyboardHeight) {
        // do things when keyboard is shown
        bottomContainer.setVisibility(View.GONE);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onHideKeyboard() {
        // do things when keyboard is hidden
        bottomContainer.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
    }        
}

Answer 6

when keyboard show

rootLayout.getHeight() < rootLayout.getRootView().getHeight() - getStatusBarHeight() 

is true,else hide