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Umer
Umer

Reputation: 580

WebView is clipping the webpage in android 4.4

WebView is clipping the webpage on Android 4.4. Here is how it looks: In WebView

It is opening correctly in google chrome. I want it to open like this in the webview. In Chrome

Following is my code:

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">


    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/web_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />
</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

MainActivity.java

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebResourceError;
import android.webkit.WebResourceRequest;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    WebView webView;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        webView=findViewById(R.id.web_view);
        webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
        webView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
        webView.getSettings().setAllowContentAccess(true);
        webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);
        webView.getSettings().setDatabaseEnabled(true);
        webView.getSettings().setDomStorageEnabled(true);
        webView .getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
        webView .getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
        webView.loadUrl("https://viftbox.com/");
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 295

Answers (1)

Morrison Chang
Morrison Chang

Reputation: 12121

For using a recent WebView engine on Android and you can't use Android System WebView or Google Chrome:

Prior to Android 5.0 improvements to the Android WebView was limited to OS upgrades/updates. So the recommendation was to use the NOW DEPRECATED Crosswalk Project as the WebView. While the site no longer exists, its ghost exists on archive.org I don't know if enough of the site survives there to be useful. This might be a solution if you are unable to change hardware and need more recent webkit features.

As the Crosswalk Project is no longer updated, or it doesn't have the features you need, I've learned that Mozilla has a GeckoView which wraps their Gecko render engine.

Note that according to Mozilla's documentation they have their own APIs so GeckoView is NOT a drop-in replacement for Android's WebView, so some effort must be made for integration.

Either way including a custom webview engine will add to the APK size.

Upvotes: 1

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