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How to make textview stay visible with softkeyboard

If you have a textview that spans a few lines, but have buttons or something else below the textview that you would like to be shown, you can have the textview object be resized automatically to make room for Android's softkeyboard. To do this, simply add one line to your AndroidManifest.xml file.

android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"

This line of code should go inside of the

<activity
android:name="SomeActivityName"
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" >
</activity>