[Android] Soft Input Resize doesn't properly resize

[Redth]

Description

With android, handling the on screen keyboard (or soft input), there's a couple of options to deal with the change in screen real estate, including Pan and Resize.

At some point, Resize stopped working well in both Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI.
There's a workaround listed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34013548/xamarin-forms-2-0-appcompat-android-keyboard-mode which points at a google issue: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=5497 which basically uses a view tree observer to change things based on the visible part of the window with the keyboard open.

I have a video which shows the Xamarin.Forms code implementing this workaround on the left side, and then the current MAUI code without the workaround on the right side.

android-adjust-resize.mp4

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create an app with a bunch of Entry's inside a scrollview so that the scrolling area extends past the height of the screen
2. Set the soft input mode on the app to Resize

Version with bug

Release Candidate 3 (current)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Android

Affected platform versions

N/A

Did you find any workaround?

No response

Relevant log output

No response

[ghost]

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[stegl83]

Hi,
I had the same issue and found out something interesting!
My application has a page with one entry and my own commandBar-Control docked on bottom.

    <Grid>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="12"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <Entry Grid.Row="0"/>

        <!-- CommandBar -->
        <mctk:CommandBar Grid.Row="3">
            <mctk:CommandBar.PrimaryCommands>
    ...
            </mctk:CommandBar.PrimaryCommands>
        </mctk:CommandBar>
    </Grid>

When setting the focus on the entry the InputPanel comes up and hides the commandbar.

But when I add one senseless ScrollViewControl like this:

    <Grid>
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="12"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <Entry Grid.Row="0"/>

        <!-- Workaround for SIP-problem -->
        <ScrollView Grid.Row="2"/>

        <!-- CommandBar -->
        <mctk:CommandBar Grid.Row="3">
            <mctk:CommandBar.PrimaryCommands>
    ...
            </mctk:CommandBar.PrimaryCommands>
        </mctk:CommandBar>
    </Grid>

Page Resize works fine on setting focus on Entry!

[Kremed]

I'm still facing this problem, any updates?

[simon10says]

I faced similar issue in TabbedPage as shown below where the bottom tab will resize incorrectly

Screenrecorder-2023-06-13-03-57-38-651.mp4

Enclosed is the sample code: SoftInputIssue.zip

Similar issue: #11979

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[Zhanglirong-Winnie]

Verified this issue with Visual Studio Enterprise 17.7.0 Preview 5.0. Not repro on android platform with template MAUI project.