How to capture the “virtual keyboard show/hide” ev

Question

I would like to alter the layout based on whether the virtual keyboard is shown or not. I've searched the API and various blogs but can't seem to find anything useful.

Is it possible?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This may not be the most effective solution. But this worked for me every time... I call this function where ever i need to listen to the softKeyboard.

boolean isOpened = false;

public void setListenerToRootView() {
    final View activityRootView = getWindow().getDecorView().findViewById(android.R.id.content);
    activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {

            int heightDiff = activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - activityRootView.getHeight();
            if (heightDiff > 100) { // 99% of the time the height diff will be due to a keyboard.
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Gotcha!!! softKeyboardup", 0).show();

                if (isOpened == false) {
                    //Do two things, make the view top visible and the editText smaller
                }
                isOpened = true;
            } else if (isOpened == true) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "softkeyborad Down!!!", 0).show();
                isOpened = false;
            }
        }
    });
}

Note: This approach will cause issues if the user uses a floating keyboard.

Answer 2

Sander ,I believe you are trying to show the view blocked by the soft keyboard. Try this http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2009/04/updating-applications-for-on-screen.html.

Answer 3

I have solve the problem on single line textview back coding.

package com.helpingdoc;

import android.content.Context;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;

public class MainSearchLayout extends LinearLayout {
    int hieght = 0;
    public MainSearchLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attributeSet) {

        super(context, attributeSet);
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);
        inflater.inflate(R.layout.main, this);


    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        Log.d("Search Layout", "Handling Keyboard Window shown");
       if(getHeight()>hieght){
           hieght = getHeight();
       }
        final int proposedheight = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
        final int actualHeight = getHeight();
        System.out.println("....hieght = "+ hieght);
        System.out.println("....actualhieght = "+ actualHeight);
        System.out.println("....proposedheight = "+ proposedheight);
        if (actualHeight > proposedheight){
            // Keyboard is shown


        } else if(actualHeight<proposedheight){
            // Keyboard is hidden

        }

        if(proposedheight == hieght){
             // Keyboard is hidden
        }
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }
}

Answer 4

You've got to handle configuration changes yourself.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/runtime-changes.html#HandlingTheChange

Sample:

// from the link above
@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);


    // Checks whether a hardware keyboard is available
    if (newConfig.hardKeyboardHidden == Configuration.HARDKEYBOARDHIDDEN_NO) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "keyboard visible", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    } else if (newConfig.hardKeyboardHidden == Configuration.HARDKEYBOARDHIDDEN_YES) {
        Toast.makeText(this, "keyboard hidden", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

Then just change the visibility of some views, update a field, and change your layout file.

Note

This solution will not work for soft keyboards and onConfigurationChanged will not be called for soft keyboards.

Answer 5

Not sure if anyone post this. Found this solution simple to use!. The SoftKeyboard class is on gist.github.com. But while keyboard popup/hide event callback we need a handler to properly do things on UI:

/*
Somewhere else in your code
*/
RelativeLayout mainLayout = findViewById(R.layout.main_layout); // You must use your root layout
InputMethodManager im = (InputMethodManager) getSystemService(Service.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);

/*
Instantiate and pass a callback
*/
SoftKeyboard softKeyboard;
softKeyboard = new SoftKeyboard(mainLayout, im);
softKeyboard.setSoftKeyboardCallback(new SoftKeyboard.SoftKeyboardChanged()
{

    @Override
    public void onSoftKeyboardHide() 
    {
        // Code here
        new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    // Code here will run in UI thread
                    ...
                }
            });
    }

    @Override
    public void onSoftKeyboardShow() 
    {
        // Code here
        new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).post(new Runnable() {
                @Override
                public void run() {
                    // Code here will run in UI thread
                    ...
                }
            });

    }   
});

Answer 6

You can also check for first DecorView's child bottom padding. It will be set to non-zero value when keyboard is shown.

@Override
protected void onLayout(boolean changed, int left, int top, int right, int bottom) {
    View view = getRootView();
    if (view != null && (view = ((ViewGroup) view).getChildAt(0)) != null) {
        setKeyboardVisible(view.getPaddingBottom() > 0);
    }
    super.onLayout(changed, left, top, right, bottom);
}