Why is Android WebView refusing user input?

Question

I\'m developing an Android application that uses a WebView to display the login page for Facebook. The page loads beautifully, and I\'m able to select the username/password

Answer 1

In my case TabHost from a previous fragment in back stack was stealing the focus from WebView input on every key press. Here's how I fixed it:

tabHost.addOnAttachStateChangeListener(new OnAttachStateChangeListener() {
  @Override
  public void onViewDetachedFromWindow(View v) {}

  @Override
  public void onViewAttachedToWindow(View v) {
    tabHost.getViewTreeObserver().removeOnTouchModeChangeListener(tabHost);
  }
});

See https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2516 for more on the topic.