onLongClickListener does not work on WebView

Question

I have the following struktur to implement an longclicklistener. It works if I click on a text on the webview which contains a html-link, so I know the structure is not comp

Answer 1

Override onTouch methode of your webview and return true for ACTION_DOWN events. Thereby you consume your down event.

  @Override
  public boolean onTouch(View v, MotionEvent event) {
    switch (event.getAction()) { 
         case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:  
            return true;
      }
   }