Android: Disable text selection in a webview

Question

I am using a webview to present some formatted stuff in my app. For some interaction (which are specific to certain dom elements) I use javascript and WebView.addJavas

Answer 1

It appears that cut/paste via long press is turned off if you used

    articleView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient(){...})

See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31484

So if you are using setChromeClient and you WANT to have long click to start copy/paste, the do the following:

    webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient(){

        [.... other overrides....]

        // @Override
        // https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31484
        // If you DO NOT want to start selection by long click,
        // the remove this function
        // (All this is undocumented stuff...)
        public void onSelectionStart(WebView view) {
            // By default we cancel the selection again, thus disabling
            // text selection unless the chrome client supports it.
            // view.notifySelectDialogDismissed();
        }

    });