How can I position a layout right above the android on-screen keyboard?

Question

See the attached photo. Twitter does it well. They have a layout, which I will call a toolbar for lack of a better term, right above the onscreen keyboard. How can I do this

Answer 1

Make sure your soft input mode is set to adjustResize, then place the layout with your toolbar at the bottom of your activity.

Example:

<LinearLayout android:orientation="vertical"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <FrameLayout android:id="@+id/my_content"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="0dip"
            android:layout_weight="1">
        <!-- Your content here -->
    </FrameLayout>
    <LinearLayout android:id="@+id/my_toolbar"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <!-- Your toolbar items here -->
    </LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Answer 2

Important addition to the answers above.

When you work with DialogFragment fullscreen is applied implicitly.

That means that you have to:
1) set style in onCreate() of your DialogFragment:

public class YourDialogFragment extends DialogFragment {
...
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setStyle(DialogFragment.STYLE_NORMAL, android.R.style.Theme_Holo_NoActionBar);
        }
}

2) if you use your own theme you should handle it like this:

<style name="AppTheme" parent="AppBaseTheme">
    <item name="android:windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">false</item>
</style>

Answer 3

This is for people who after setting the adjustResize still did not work, there is an article: adjustResize does not work in fullscreen

I indeed had this set to fullscreen, when setting my theme back to a nonfullscreen theme the layouts resized just as wanted.