How can I position a layout right above the android on-screen keyboard?

Question

See the attached photo. Twitter does it well. They have a layout, which I will call a toolbar for lack of a better term, right above the onscreen keyboard. How can I do this

Answer 1

Important addition to the answers above.

When you work with DialogFragment fullscreen is applied implicitly.

That means that you have to:
1) set style in onCreate() of your DialogFragment:

public class YourDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {
...
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setStyle(DialogFragment.STYLE_NORMAL, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_NoActionBar);
        }
}

2) if you use your own theme you should handle it like this: