Disable WebView touch events in Android

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hpique picture hpique · Oct 4, 2010 · Viewed 31.5k times · Source

How do you disable all touch events in an Android WebView (or scrolling in particular)? I would like the activity to handle all touch events.

Answer

hpique picture hpique · Oct 4, 2010 
mWebView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
        return true;
    }
});

Disables all touch events on a WebView because the touch listener is executed before the default touch behavior of the WebView. By returning true the event is consumed and isn't propagated to the WebView.

Using android:clickable="false" does not disable touch events.

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