Android: Error popup on EditText doesn't move down when keyboard goes away

Question

I have an activity that displays a few EditTexts on screen for user input. To be sure the soft keyboard doesn\'t cover my fields when it displays I have set the property

Answer 1

If this is as you described, I think this may be a genuine bug, so may be worth writing it up on the Android Source site.

So evidently I can only think of hack work arounds!

Override when the keyboard disappears:

public boolean onKeyPreIme(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
 if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && 
     event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_UP) {
         revalidateEditText();
         return false;
 }
 return super.dispatchKeyEvent(event);
}

public void revalidateEditText(){
       // Dismiss your origial error dialog           
       setError(null);
       // figure out which EditText it is, you already have this code
       // call your validator like in the Q
       validate(editText); // or whatever your equivalent is
}

This will revalidate your EditText, dismiss your error dialog and re-show it.

How's that sound?

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