Disable scrolling in webview?

Question

Hi there,

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! Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

My dirty, but easy-to-implement and well working solution:

Simply put the webview inside a scrollview. Make the webview to be far too bigger than the possible content (in one or both dimensions, depending on the requirements). ..and set up the scrollview's scrollbar(s) as you wish.

Example to disable the horizontal scrollbar on a webview:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:scrollbars="vertical"
>
    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/mywebview"
        android:layout_width="1000dip"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    />
</ScrollView>

I hope this helps ;)

Answer 2

Set a listener on your webview:

// breakingart.com: This prevents the webview being scrolled
webView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                return(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE));
            }
        });

Answer 3

I haven't tried this as I have yet to encounter this problem, but perhaps you could overrive the onScroll function?

@Override
public void scrollTo(int x, int y){
    super(0,y);
}