Android Scrollview in RelativeLayout with ButtonBar

Question

I\'m trying to implement a login view where several EditTexts and a logo are displayed on the screen with a ButtonBar at the bottom, something like this:

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Answer 1

If your use case supports hiding of the button bar in landscape orientation you can check Resources.getSystem().getConfiguration().orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE and set the button bar to View.GONE.

You also probably need to set android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" on the <activity> in your manifest file. Android will only put it in adjustResize automatically when the root layout is a ScrollView (iirc).

Answer 2

It turned out that the solution required two steps:

1. The inability to scroll was a result of the ScrollView being behind the Button Bar. To fix this, I defined the ScrollView below the Button Bar, then used android:layout_above="@id/buttonbar_login" to force the ScrollView to reside entirely above the Button Bar.

2. Apparently when the onscreen keyboard is opened, if you have a ScrollView it will be resized allowing the Button Bar to float up with the keyboard. To fix this I modified the manifest and added android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan" to prevent the ScrollView from resizing.