How to Keep the Keyboard from Covering My UI Instead of Resizing It

How do I keep the keyboard from covering my UI instead of resizing it?

The way to fix this is with a custom renderer that listens for the keyboard showing up and adds padding while it's there.

In your PCL project, KeyboardResizingAwareContentPage.cs:

using Xamarin.Forms;

public class KeyboardResizingAwareContentPage : ContentPage {
    public bool CancelsTouchesInView = true;
}

In your iOS project, IosKeyboardFixPageRenderer.cs:

using Foundation;
using MyProject.iOS.Renderers;
using UIKit;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using Xamarin.Forms.Platform.iOS;

[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(KeyboardResizingAwareContentPage), typeof(IosKeyboardFixPageRenderer))]

namespace MyProject.iOS.Renderers {
    public class IosKeyboardFixPageRenderer : PageRenderer {
        NSObject observerHideKeyboard;
        NSObject observerShowKeyboard;

        public override void ViewDidLoad()
        {
            base.ViewDidLoad();

            var cp = Element as KeyboardResizingAwareContentPage;
            if (cp != null && !cp.CancelsTouchesInView) {
                foreach (var g in View.GestureRecognizers) {
                    g.CancelsTouchesInView = false;
                }
            }
        }

        public override void ViewWillAppear(bool animated)
        {
            base.ViewWillAppear(animated);

            observerHideKeyboard = NSNotificationCenter.DefaultCenter.AddObserver(UIKeyboard.WillHideNotification, OnKeyboardNotification);
            observerShowKeyboard = NSNotificationCenter.DefaultCenter.AddObserver(UIKeyboard.WillShowNotification, OnKeyboardNotification);
        }

        public override void ViewWillDisappear(bool animated)
        {
            base.ViewWillDisappear(animated);

            NSNotificationCenter.DefaultCenter.RemoveObserver(observerHideKeyboard);
            NSNotificationCenter.DefaultCenter.RemoveObserver(observerShowKeyboard);
        }

        void OnKeyboardNotification(NSNotification notification)
        {
            if (!IsViewLoaded) return;

            var frameBegin = UIKeyboard.FrameBeginFromNotification(notification);
            var frameEnd = UIKeyboard.FrameEndFromNotification(notification);

            var page = Element as ContentPage;
            if (page != null && !(page.Content is ScrollView)) {
                var padding = page.Padding;
                page.Padding = new Thickness(padding.Left, padding.Top, padding.Right, padding.Bottom + frameBegin.Top - frameEnd.Top);
            }
        }
    }
}

When the keyboard appears, the Flutter widgets resize. How to prevent this?

Updated Answer

resizeToAvoidBottomPadding is now deprecated.

The updated solution is to set resizeToAvoidBottomInset property to false.

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Original Answer

In your Scaffold, set resizeToAvoidBottomPadding property to false.

Android: How do I prevent the soft keyboard from pushing my view up?

You can simply switch your Activity's windowSoftInputModeflag to adjustPan in your AndroidMainfest.xml file inside your activity tag.

Check the official documentation for more info.

<activity
   ...
   android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustPan"> 
</activity>

If your container is not changing size, then you likely have the height set to "match parent". If possible, set the parent to "Wrap Content", or a constraint layout with constraingts to top and bottom of parent.

The parent container will shrink to fit the available space, so it is likely that your content should be inside of a scolling view to prevent (depending on the phone manufacturer and the layout choosen...)

1. Content being smashed together
2. Content hanging off the screen
3. Content being inacccessable due to it being underneath the keyboard

even if the layout it is in is a relative or constraint layout, the content could exhibit problems 1-3.

For EditText, how do I let the keyboard not cover it and some other views?

There is no way. THere are only 3 ways of reacting when the keyboard opens:

1)Do nothing
2)Resize
3)Pan, such that the line with the cursor is on screen.

There is no way to do anything else, and no reliable signal sent to the app that the keyboard is showing you can respond to. There especially is no way to ensure the line at the bottom of an EditText is going to be on screen.

The best you can do to try to ensure that is to resize, and carefully layout your content so that the resize has minimal effect on the ui shown. But that may or may not be possible, depending on the specifics of the UI. And you haven't shown us enough of what you're trying to do to give you suggestions on it.

How to adjust layout when soft keyboard appears

Just add

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

in your AndroidManifest.xml where you declare this particular activity and this will adjust the layout resize option.

some source code below for layout design

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:text="FaceBook"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
        android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:hint="username" >

        <requestFocus />
    </EditText>

    <EditText
        android:id="@+id/editText2"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/editText1"
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:ems="10"
        android:hint="password" />

    <Button
        android:id="@+id/button1"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_below="@+id/editText2"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        android:layout_marginLeft="18dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="20dp"
        android:text="Log In" />

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView2"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentBottom="true"
        android:layout_marginTop="17dp"
        android:gravity="center"
        android:text="Sign up for facebook"
        android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

</RelativeLayout>

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