How to prevent a scrollview from scrolling to a webview after data is loaded?

Question

So I have a fascinating problem. Despite the fact that I\'m not manually or programmatically scrolling my view, my WebView is being automatically scrolled to after the data

Answer 1

I had the same problem, after hours of trying several ideas, what finally worked for me was simply adding the descendantFocusability attribute to the ScrollView's containing LinearLayout, with the value blocksDescendants. In your case:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants" >

Haven't had the problem reoccur since.

Answer 2

You should create new class extend ScrollView, then Override requestChildFocus:

public class MyScrollView extends ScrollView {

    @Override 
    public void requestChildFocus(View child, View focused) { 
        if (focused instanceof WebView ) 
           return;
        super.requestChildFocus(child, focused);
    }
}

Then in your xml layout, using:

<MyScrollView 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@color/background" >

That works for me. The ScrollView will not auto scroll to the WebView anymore.

Answer 3

Probably there are people who have the same problem I was having, so I'll help out.

I was trying to put android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" in my main ScrollView as following:

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants">
    /*my linearlayout or whatever to hold the views */

and it wasn't working, so I had to make a RelativeLayout the parent of the ScrollView, and place the android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants" in the parent aswell.

So I solved it doing the following:

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants">

<ScrollView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
/*my linearlayout or whatever to hold the views */

Answer 4

You can simply add this to your LinearLayout: android:focusableInTouchMode="true". It works for me.

 <LinearLayout
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"
    android:orientation="vertical" >

Answer 5

I had to use the fully qualified name for MyScrollView, otherwise I got an inflate exception.

<com.mypackagename.MyScrollView 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@color/background" >

Answer 6

Like this:

<com.ya.test.view.MyScrollView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <FrameLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:descendantFocusability="beforeDescendants"
        android:focusable="true"
        android:focusableInTouchMode="true" >