Android : Showing keyboard moves my components up, i want to hide them instead

Question

I have added a LinearLayOut having some buttons My screen is RelativeLayOut it self

Here is the code for that linear layout manager

Answer 1

You probably want

That will prevent any layout changes when the soft keyboard is shown.

There is probably some confusion over this since it's currently missing from the documentation at http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/activity-element.html#wsoft