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Android EditText: Expand upwards

My EditText is expanding downwards when the input has too many characters, which leads to it being hidden behind other elements, like the keyboard. I want the user to be able to see the save and delete buttons which I have layed out below the TextView, even when a long message gets entered.
Is there any way to get the EditText to expand upwards instead of downwards?
For example, in Whatsapp entering long messages leads to the input field expanding upwards and eventually starting to scroll.

Change the look of an EditText prgrammatically

I'm making an app that works as follows:
when you click a button, there will appear an EditText and a Button and a TextView.
I have already done that, but the style is not the same as the style when I create the EditText in xml (it looks different, the colour is not the same).
There will always be a couple of EditTexts, so the user will see the difference very well.
I also prefer the colour of the EditText when I create it in xml.
How can I change the style of an EditText programmatically?
Thanks in advance!
http://i.stack.imgur.com/24dzI.png (picture from the difference)

The issue here is that the background is being set differently between the two fields. You can just use setBackground(...) to have it match the other fields.
If you need to get the proper background drawable, look up one of the existing fields, grab the background from there, and assign it to your dynamic field.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/EditText.html
You can use EditText.setTypeFace() or EditText.setTextAppearance(), depending on what you're trying to change. The link has all the methods that EditText can perform.

Update TextView numerous times with Buttons

I am making a simple shopping cart application where the user can select items (via buttons) and their running total will be displayed in a text view.
I am fine with having the text view being updated on a single click but I am struggling to figure out how to write my code if the same button is pressed more than once. For example a button writes a value of £3 into the TextView, if this button was clicked again I want the TextView to increase to £6 and so on.
Further to this I want to be able to have more than value added to the TextView from different buttons. I imagine this is more of a Java question as opposed to Android but seeing as I'm a bit of a newbie to both all advice is welcome!

Into your class if you have price value add an incerementPriceValue and make get/set functions for the last one.
If user press the button
setIncrementValue(getIncrementValue()+priceValue);
setText(getIncrementValue+simbolstring);

Create a int variable count and on the click increase the count value and set that value on the textView

Keyboard doesn't show when EditText is clicked

I'm having a problem with the softkeyboard not showing when i click on a EditText.
The activity goes like this.
1. Activity starts
2. Dialog box opens with a custom keyboard
3. And then I try to click on an empty EditText field to put in data, but nothing happens. The field get focus, but keyboard doesn't show up.
I haven't done anything funky with disabling keyboard..
Anyone know whats going on?

If you're using AVD manager add a hardware property Keyboard support and set it to false.
That should disable the shown keyboard, and show the virtual one.

Set focus on an edittext after using

I have an EditText that recieves input and prints in on the screen. I need to find a way wherein after click submit or enter, the phone will focus on the EditText
I tried
txtJoke.setFocusable(true);
txtJoke.setFocusableInTouchMode(true);
txtJoke.requestFocus();
and it doesn't work..
requestfocus works during onCreate..
I'm thinking of manually triggering a click an edittext..

You can use ...
Button newButton.setOnFocusChangeListener(new View.onFocusChangeListener) {....}
to specify where will be the focus go next.