Disable scrolling in webview?

Question

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!

Answer 1

Just use android:focusableInTouchMode="false" on your webView.

Answer 2

I resolved the flicker and auto-scroll by:

webView.setFocusable(false);
webView.setFocusableInTouchMode(false);

However if it still does not work for some reason, simply make a class that extends WebView, and put this method on it:

// disable scroll on touch
  setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
      return (event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE);
    }
  });

I am suggesting to extend WebView, in order to provide more effective control, like disable/enable swipes, enable/disable touches, listeners, control transitions, animations, define settings internally so on..

Answer 3

studying the above answers almost worked for me ... but I still had a problem that I could 'fling' the view on 2.1 (seemed to be fixed with 2.2 & 2.3).

here is my final solution

public class MyWebView extends WebView
{
private boolean bAllowScroll = true;
@SuppressWarnings("unused") // it is used, just java is dumb
private long downtime;

public MyWebView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
{
    super(context, attrs);
}

public void setAllowScroll(int allowScroll)
{
    bAllowScroll = allowScroll!=0;
    if (!bAllowScroll)
        super.scrollTo(0,0);
    setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(bAllowScroll);
    setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(bAllowScroll);
}

@Override
public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) 
{
    switch (ev.getAction())
    {
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
        if (!bAllowScroll)
            downtime = ev.getEventTime();
        break;
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
    case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
        if (!bAllowScroll)
        {
            try {
                Field fmNumSamples = ev.getClass().getDeclaredField("mNumSamples");
                fmNumSamples.setAccessible(true);
                Field fmTimeSamples = ev.getClass().getDeclaredField("mTimeSamples");
                fmTimeSamples.setAccessible(true);
                long newTimeSamples[] = new long[fmNumSamples.getInt(ev)];
                newTimeSamples[0] = ev.getEventTime()+250;
                fmTimeSamples.set(ev,newTimeSamples);
            } catch (Exception e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        break;
    }
    return super.onTouchEvent(ev);
}

@Override
public void flingScroll(int vx, int vy)
{
    if (bAllowScroll)
        super.flingScroll(vx,vy);
}

@Override
protected void onScrollChanged(int l, int t, int oldl, int oldt)
{
    if (bAllowScroll)
        super.onScrollChanged(l, t, oldl, oldt);
    else if (l!=0 || t!=0)
        super.scrollTo(0,0);
}

@Override
public void scrollTo(int x, int y)
{
    if (bAllowScroll)
        super.scrollTo(x,y);
}

@Override
public void scrollBy(int x, int y)
{
    if (bAllowScroll)
        super.scrollBy(x,y);
}
}

Answer 4

If you subclass Webview, you can simply override onTouchEvent to filter out the move-events that trigger scrolling.

public class SubWebView extends WebView {

    @Override
    public boolean onTouchEvent (MotionEvent ev)    {
        if(ev.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE) {
            postInvalidate();
            return true;
        }
        return super.onTouchEvent(ev);
    }
    ...

Answer 5

I don't know if you still need it or not, but here is the solution:

appView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.appView); 
appView.setVerticalScrollBarEnabled(false);
appView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);

Answer 6

Set a listener on your WebView:

webView.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() {
            public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
                return(event.getAction() == MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE));
            }
        });