Android: Have an arbitrary View slide under another View like the software keyboard does

Question

I want to have a View pop in at the bottom of the page exactly like the software keyboard view does in the compose section of the Mms app. It slides in from the bottom, as

Answer 1

Today there is a SlidingLayout view to use as explianed in this question.

Just use this lib and add the following in your layout:

and add the following to your gradle build file:

compile 'com.wunderlist:sliding-layer:1.2.5'

You can download a demo app from here