Android - Text Field goes to white screen when turned sideways

Question

For all of my apps, when you are entering String into the Text Fields and you turn the screen sideways, the entire view turns white. Here are some images to show it:

9:16 aspect ratio, vertical:

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16:9 aspect ratio, horizontal:

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Is this an easy fix or is there serious time commitment in order to make this word properly for landscape orientation as well?

This isn't the textview going fullscreen. Its how the OS handles the keyboard in landscape. — Nick, Jul 29 '13 at 19:51
Do you have problem with losing text entered into it, or just with the look of the textview horizontally? — EMarci15, Jul 29 '13 at 19:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 03 '13 at 22:17

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put android:imeOptions="flagNoExtractUi" in the EditText XML properties

answered Nov 03 '13 at 22:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 25 '14 at 02:37

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That's actually the way the keyboard works when you input text in landscape. I don't think there's any other way to change or get rid of the white background, but the TextView should still work the same.

edited Mar 25 '14 at 02:37

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answered Jul 29 '13 at 19:54

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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See this post, you can try to override the UI full screen editing method with:

@Override
public InputConnection onCreateInputConnection(EditorInfo outAttrs) {

    outAttrs.imeOptions = EditorInfo.IME_FLAG_NO_EXTRACT_UI;

    // etc.
}

edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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answered Jul 29 '13 at 19:55

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I just get an error when I put that. It tells me to remove the `@Override` statement and then when I do, it tell me that the method needs to `return` something or be cast as `void`, neither of which work. – Michael Yaworski Jul 29 '13 at 21:24

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

When a screen rotation takes place, the current activity is destroyed and recreated. This may be the cause of your issue.

Maybe this SO post will help...

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1673374/1246574

Also here's the documentation that gives details about how to handle activity life cycle, including when an activity is destroyed due to screen rotation...

http://developer.android.com/training/basics/activity-lifecycle/recreating.html

Android - Text Field goes to white screen when turned sideways

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