Scrolling drop-down-menu over the keyboard in autocompletetextview

Question

I have an Autocompletetextview dropping down the suggestions list, up to the border of the soft-keyboard.

Then, when scrolling over the suggestions list: - (in a g

Answer 1

You need to do two things. First, adjust the soft input mode of that activity in the manifest.

android:windowSoftInputMode="stateHidden|adjustResize"

This ensures views are laid out again when the keyboard is shown. Then, set a global layout listener in your oncreate on the top level view to do the dropdown height calculation when the layout changes. Adjust the dropdown height to be the height of everything below the keyboard, minus some padding if you want.

v.getViewTreeObserver().addOnGlobalLayoutListener(new OnGlobalLayoutListener() {

        @Override
        public void onGlobalLayout() {
                autoCompleteView.setDropDownHeight(view2.getHeight());
}

Where view2 is the view/layout that includes everything below the autocompleteview.