Edittext resizes in landscape mode when softkeyboard appears

Question

When I\'m in landscape mode with an EditText on the screen, if I tap in the EditText to bring up the soft keyboard, the EditText expands in both dimensions to take up the entire

Answer 1

You need to add android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" to prevent this behavior.

You can read more about it here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextView.html#attr_android:imeOptions