Android setLayerType Webview

Question

I am trying to create a WebView dynamically using the following code:

mWebView = new WebView(this);
mWebView.setId(R.id.webview);
mWebView.setVerticalScrollBarEn         


        

Answer 1

Old question, but answering anyway incase someone else finds it:

You can call setLayerType via reflection. That way the code will run independent of OS version.

try {
    Method setLayerTypeMethod = mWebView.getClass().getMethod("setLayerType", new Class[] {int.class, Paint.class});
    setLayerTypeMethod.invoke(mWebView, new Object[] {LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null});
} catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
    // Older OS, no HW acceleration anyway
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}