Soft keyboard changes the view layout when it opens in landscape

Question

Why does the soft keyboard change the layout so dramatically when I swap this screen to landscape? It works perfectly fine in portrait. I am assuming that it has to do with the limited space, but the keyboard could still open without covering the EditText that spawned it. It even inserts a Search button. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Answer 1

This is default Android behavior, users should be used to it. But if you really don't want this to happen, you can put android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" in the EditText layout.

Also, the "Search" button is what you've specified in the android:imeOptions for the action.