html textfield in WebView in an Android application is hidden by the soft keyboard

Question

I have an Android application that is a TabHost with a WebView. I use it to load a specific html file that has a text field in its bottom part.

When I touch the html

Answer 1

I was getting crazy nothing works android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" may help but be sure to have your app not in full screen.

Removing full screen for my app solved the problem with the layout resize with softkeyboard.

<item name="android:windowFullscreen">false</item>

Answer 2

I found a solution for this issue. (about a week after I posted the question; I only got to answering in stackoverflow today...)

I had pieces in my code that changed the WebView's height (to have room for a TabBar). Turns out that when you invoke setLayoutParams on a WebView, it will no longer change its height even if you have android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" set.

I circumvented the need to change the WebView's height by adding the TabBar to the main.xml layout file, with an initial size of 0. When I increase the TabBar's size, the WebView's size decreases automatically, and it preserves the android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" behavior.