How to keep background image size when software keyboard show

Question

When the software keyboard shows, it resizes my layout and thus squeezes the background image together. My question is basically a duplicate of this question, which is expla

Answer 1

I actually ran into a similar problem not too long ago. I stumbled upon the correct answer with a bit of work, though.

In your android manifest for this project, attached to the specific activity that you are using, use the line android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan|stateVisible" in the activity tag.

adjustPan basically means that your activity will not resize itself to fit the soft keyboard, and stateVisible means that the soft keyboard will show when requested (this can be stateAlwaysVisible, etc if necessary)

source : Android Dev for Activity tags