How to check visibility of software keyboard in Android?

Question

I need to do a very simple thing - find out if the software keyboard is shown. Is this possible in Android?

Answer 1

Reuben Scratton's new answer (calculate the HeightDiff int heightDiff = activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - activityRootView.getHeight(); ) will not work in activity if you set the translucent status bar mode.

if you use translucent status bar , activityRootView.getHeight() will never change weather the soft keyboard is visible. it will always return the height of activity and status bar.

For example, Nexus 4, Android 5.0.1, set android:windowTranslucentStatus to true, it will return 1184 forever, even the ime have opend. If you set android:windowTranslucentStatus to false, it will return Height correctly, if ime invisible,it return 1134(not include the status bar)。close the ime, it will return 5xx maybe (depends on ime's height)

I don't know weather this is a bug, I've try on 4.4.4 and 5.0.1, the result is same.

So, up to now, the second most agreed answer, Kachi's solution will be the most safe way to calcute the height of ime. Here's a copy:

final View activityRootView = findViewById(R.id.activityRoot);
activityRootView.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new        OnGlobalLayoutListener() {
@Override
public void onGlobalLayout() {
Rect r = new Rect();
//r will be populated with the coordinates of your view that area still visible.
activityRootView.getWindowVisibleDisplayFrame(r);

int heightDiff = activityRootView.getRootView().getHeight() - (r.bottom - r.top);
if (heightDiff > 100) { // if more than 100 pixels, its probably a keyboard...
    ... do something here
    }
 }
});