Keyboard Placement Obscures View Below Edittext Would Like To Keep Visible

I have an activity that is basically a long form of entry fields. On each row, I want to show a TextView to serve as hint text just below each EditText and I want the TextView to r

Solution 1:

Vishavjeet got me on the right track in suggesting I scrolldown to reveal the view that may be overlapped by the keyboard. Below is a function similar to what I used to solve the problem. It can be called when the EditText above the TextView receives focus:

//       View targetView; // View that may be hidden by keyboard//       ScrollView scrollContainerView; // Scrollview containing hiddenView//voidassureViewVisible(View targetView, ScrollView, scrollContainerView) {        
        WindowrootWindow= activity.getWindow();
        RectrMyView=newRect();
        Viewrootview= rootWindow.getDecorView();
        rootview.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(rMyView); // Area not taken up by keyboardint subTextPos[] = newint[2];
        targetView.getLocationInWindow(subTextPos); // Get position of targetViewintsubTextHt= targetView.getHeight();     // Get bottom of target viewif ((subTextPos[1]+subTextHt) > rMyView.bottom) { // Is targetView at all obscured?intscrollBy= (subTextPos[1]+subTextHt) - rMyView.bottom + 10; // add a small bottom margin
           mMeasurementViewScrollView.smoothScrollBy(0, scrollBy); // Scroll to subtext
        }
   }

Solution 2:

EDIT: By understanding the problem more deeply, I think that you should add scroll programatically when user clicks on the Edittext. Here is the code to do that:

private final voidfocusOnView()
{ 
 newHandler().post(newRunnable() 
 { 
 @Overridepublicvoidrun() 
 { 
 your_scrollview.scrollTo(0, your_EditBox.getBottom()); 
 }}); 
 }

From my personal experience I think there is not such way to do that. The thing you can do is place the hint textview toRightOf the editext. Or Use modern Approach by using a Hint Placeholder on Edittext:

In XML, it's simply android:hint="someText"

Programatically you can use edittext.setHint(int);

pass R.string.somestring in above method.