Android: Flash content breaks WebView boundings and overlaps native layout elements

Question

I\'m using a WebView to display a web page which contains some Flash content which basically works pretty well. The big problem is, that the Flash content seems not to consi

Answer 1

I found this (6 month old) android bug report: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8938 Unfortunately there are so far no solutions, workarounds or comments.

In Adobe's bug tracker I found a similar bug (https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-4684) with the following comment:

The behavior you're describing is a known issue in Flash Player 10.1 on the Android platform. Today, Flash will always display on top of HTML content. Also, when two pieces of Flash content are overlapping, the order in which they are rendered is unpredictable.

This fix for this issue will require updates from both the Android and Flash Player teams, and will be addressed in a future release.