How to capture the “virtual keyboard show/hide” event in Android?

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.

Answer 1

Nebojsa Tomcic's answer wasn't helpful for me. I have RelativeLayout with TextView and AutoCompleteTextView inside it. I need to scroll the TextView to the bottom when the keyboard is showed and when it's hidden. To accomplish this I overrode onLayout method and it works fine for me.

public class ExtendedLayout extends RelativeLayout
{
    public ExtendedLayout(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 onLayout(boolean changed, int l, int t, int r, int b)
    {
        super.onLayout(changed, l, t, r, b);

        if (changed)
        {
            int scrollEnd = (textView.getLineCount() - textView.getHeight() /
                textView.getLineHeight()) * textView.getLineHeight();
            textView.scrollTo(0, scrollEnd);
        }
    }
}