Android: fixing window resizing and scrolling
Recently, when I was working on an my forthcoming Exercise Android App, I was having an issue. When I clicked into a EditText box, then the soft keyboard would come up. So far, so good. But what was happening was the keyboard was covering a good portion of the EditText box until the user began to type.
Basically, it looked like this:
Obviously, this wasn’t what I wanted. After scouring the Internet, I found out about the property android:windowSoftInputMode that you put into an application tag in your Manifest file. This has a few options. The ultimately correct one was adjustResize. However, that wasn’t the end of it.
Next, I needed to add an actual scrollable area, as a TableLayout is not scrollable by default. This was easy enough, as I surrounded my TableLayout with a ScrollView tag and gave it the property android:isScrollContainer="true".
This fixed my layout to look like this:
Which was what I wanted. Good times.
Hopes this helps.