Android keyboard cuts screen in half when you proceed before closing

[Gareth Murfin]

On many devices if you proceed without closing the keyboard on android then that area of the screen is black and redundant on the next form. It is as if something big has change din android keyboard stuff, I expected this to be the solution but it still happens:

 Display.getInstance().callSerially(new Runnable() {

                public void run() {

                    _("closekb");

                     Display.getInstance().setShowVirtualKeyboard(false);//1.2.4 close keyboard, it stays open on some devices and ends up taking over half the screen!!!

                }

            });

[Gareth Murfin]

ie, https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4194619/c5d592ec-ee23-41b4-806c-f35f73ed90fb.png

this is happening quite often, and i think i had only seen it happen once before in my life until recently. 

[Shai Almog]

That method does nothing. You need to call stopEditing() on the text field to actually close it.

[Gareth Murfin]

That works great, thanks Shai!

[Gareth Murfin]

Apparently this is still not working for the client, the screen of the app gets cut in half when he moves on without shutting the keyboard, even with a delay and a call serially. I have seen a video so it seems true, im wondering if there is an event when the keyboard pops up where i can call validate or something, of course this is probably already happening but something strange happens with regard to repaint on the keyboard when it first appears.

[Shai Almog]

A delay is never the right thing to do, we'll need a test case for that.

[Gareth Murfin]

dont think i can recreate this now, perhaps it has been fixed your side, will see what my client says. By delay i meant a timer which waits a bit until keyboard is definitely shut before calling showform. Also the keyboard flash appears to be fixed also! Super happy right now, just hope its same on clients devices :)