Until now I have been an iPhone developer only and now I have decided to give Android a whirl. Something I haven't been able to figure out on Android is how to programmatically prevent scrolling in a WebView
?
Something similar to iPhones prevention of the onTouchMove
event would be great!
Here is my code for disabling all scrolling in webview:
// disable scroll on touch
webview.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
@Override
public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
return (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE);
}
});
To only hide the scrollbars, but not disable scrolling:
WebView.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(false);
WebView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
or you can try using single column layout but this only works with simple pages and it disables horizontal scrolling:
//Only disabled the horizontal scrolling:
webview.getSettings().setLayoutAlgorithm(LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN);
You can also try to wrap your webview with vertically scrolling scrollview and disable all scrolling on the webview:
<ScrollView
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:scrollbars="vertical" >
<WebView
android:id="@+id/mywebview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:scrollbars="none" />
</ScrollView>
And set
webview.setScrollContainer(false);
Don't forget to add the webview.setOnTouchListener(...)
code above to disable all scrolling in the webview. The vertical ScrollView will allow for scrolling of the WebView's content.