Android EditText, soft keyboard show/hide event?

Question

Is it possible to catch the event that Soft Keyboard was shown or hidden for EditText?

Answer 1

In my case I wanted to hide a bottom bar when softkeyboard was shown. I considered best to just hide the bar when layout had less than a percent size of normal layout size. So I used this solution that works fine considering that soft keyboard usually takes 20% or more screen height. Just change the percent constant by any value you may think is ok. It needs attribute android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" in manifest and layout must be the root to work.

Extend from any layout you may want instead of RelativeLayout.

public class SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout extends RelativeLayout {
    private boolean isKeyboardShown = false;
    private List lsners=new ArrayList();
    private float layoutMaxH = 0f; // max measured height is considered layout normal size
    private static final float DETECT_ON_SIZE_PERCENT = 0.8f;

    public SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    @SuppressLint("NewApi")
    public SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout(Context context, AttributeSet attrs,
            int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        final int newH = MeasureSpec.getSize(heightMeasureSpec);
        if (newH > layoutMaxH) {
            layoutMaxH = newH;
        }
        if (layoutMaxH != 0f) {
            final float sizePercent = newH / layoutMaxH;
            if (!isKeyboardShown && sizePercent <= DETECT_ON_SIZE_PERCENT) {
                isKeyboardShown = true;
                for (final SoftKeyboardLsner lsner : lsners) {
                    lsner.onSoftKeyboardShow();
                }
            } else if (isKeyboardShown && sizePercent > DETECT_ON_SIZE_PERCENT) {
                isKeyboardShown = false;
                for (final SoftKeyboardLsner lsner : lsners) {
                    lsner.onSoftKeyboardHide();
                }
            }
        }
        super.onMeasure(widthMeasureSpec, heightMeasureSpec);
    }

    public void addSoftKeyboardLsner(SoftKeyboardLsner lsner) {
        lsners.add(lsner);
    }

    public void removeSoftKeyboardLsner(SoftKeyboardLsner lsner) {
        lsners.remove(lsner);
    }

    // Callback
    public interface SoftKeyboardLsner {
        public void onSoftKeyboardShow();
        public void onSoftKeyboardHide();
    }
}

Example:

layout/my_layout.xml

    ...

MyActivity.java

public class MyActivity extends Activity {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.my_layout);
        SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout layout = (SoftKeyboardLsnedRelativeLayout) findViewById(R.id.myLayout);
        layout.addSoftKeyboardLsner(new SoftKeyboardLsner() {
            @Override
            public void onSoftKeyboardShow() {
                Log.d("SoftKeyboard", "Soft keyboard shown");
            }

            @Override
            public void onSoftKeyboardHide() {
                Log.d("SoftKeyboard", "Soft keyboard hidden");
            }
        });
    }
}