Kirigami: a feature needed for subsurface and api change feedback

[Marco Martin]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org> wrote:
> (1) the keyboard issue on both iOS and (maybe less so) Android.
>     Sometimes the virtual keyboard opening is deteceted correctly and
>     correct bottom margin is added, sometimes it isn't. So either we
>     compensate for the bug in Kirigami (as we do today) and then get the
>     HUGE gray empty area above the virtual keyboard when Qt does detect
>     the keyboard being there, or we don't, and then the keyboard hides the
>     lower part of the page and you can't scroll that up, either.

I found a way to more or less fix it on Android:

1) disable any margin calculation for the case of android in
ApplicationWindow.qml
2) in the application manifest xml file add:
android:windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize"
as an attribute of the main <activity> definition.

this will make the actual application window resize when the keyboard
opens (unfortunately it flickers a bit when resizes)

this seems the best result achievable on android.
now about ios i don't have much idea. it seems that is qt itself
translating the root item of the qml view, so *may* be hackable away
(best way would be proposing a patch in Qt) for now probably using the
limited native slide away is the least broken way, even if indeed,
limited

--
Marco Martin