How to prevent Soft Keyboard from resizing background image

Question

I have a typical listview with an edittext and a button at the bottom of the activity.

When I click onto the edittext, the sof

Answer 1

I have tried so may solutions for solving this problem. android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" will make your whole screen shift with keyboard. Generally we have a title of the screen on the top. Using this flag it will also go out of the visible area, which make bad user experience. I use android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" This will resize the whole screen but it will cause the same problem @Maurice state in the question.

So here is my final solution:

In Manifest

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize|stateAlwaysHidden"

In XMl

Dont Set any background here.And keep your view under ScrollView

In Java

You need to set the background to window:

getWindow().setBackgroundDrawableResource(R.drawable.bg_wood) ;