What do setUseWideViewPort() and setLoadWithOverviewMode() precisely do?

tacone picture tacone · Mar 27, 2011 · Viewed 40.8k times · Source

I am disappointed at the lack of documentation of WebView and related stuff.

(unless you think the following is propert documetation)

public void setLoadWithOverviewMode (boolean overview)

Set whether the WebView loads a page with overview mode

and:

public synchronized void setUseWideViewPort (boolean use)

Tell the WebView to use the wide viewport

So: What is "Overview mode" ? what is "Wide viewport" ?

ps: I tried to look for webkit related docs but could not find it.

Answer

tacone picture tacone · Apr 28, 2011

Apparently:

setLoadWithOverviewMode(true) loads the WebView completely zoomed out

setUseWideViewPort(true) makes the Webview have a normal viewport (such as a normal desktop browser), while when false the webview will have a viewport constrained to its own dimensions (so if the webview is 50px*50px the viewport will be the same size)