Best description for my issue was at
Keyboard layout hiding android action bar?
And I will paste-quote here: "I have this problem also but the difference is, i have a list above my edittext and can't use a scrolling container. If I use adjustResize when the edittext is focused it appears above the list and the last items from the list get obscured (list is not pushed up). If I don't use adjustResize on the other hand, when the edittext is focused it pushes everything up but the acionbar is hidden and also I cannot scroll to the top of the list. Can someone share a solution for this? "
So
- I have a toolbar
- then a chat content
- and then a bottom bar for sending a message (editText and a button)
Now, when I tap on an ediText, and soft keyb opens up, I do NOT want my toolbar to collapse and hide, but I do want my chat content to scroll up, so above the bottom entry I will see the last messages from chat content (in listView).
I've tried a number of combinations for Activity adjustResize or adjustPan, but none of them was working. Even wrapped toolbar in CoordinatorLayout and AppBarLayout, but still, no results. Either my content gets pushed/scrolled correctly but toolbar hides OR toolbar stays but softKeyboard overlaps last couple of messages.
The solution I share is a workaround. I had implemented a function scroll(), to scroll my content if a new message arrives, so that was one function I implemented before. I was missing the other part and that is, detect when a softKeyboard was open so I can scroll my content.
That was easy to find here on How to check visibility of software keyboard in Android?
I hope someone will find this workaround useful and sleep at least a couple more hours.
Note: Animation of sliding content up is not consistent with softKeyboard sliding up. After keyboard is opened, then I do scroll, which is not in-sync. It is just a snap. But I don't care about that until I find a better solution for orchestrating this event using a native Android component or layout.
