How to disable horizontal scrolling in Android webview

Question

I want to have only vertical scrolling in my webview and don\'t want any horizontal scrolling.

webSettings.setLayoutAlgorithm(LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN);

Answer 1

Solution based on @vee answer, but more convenient:

public class WebViewTouchListener implements View.OnTouchListener {
    private float downX;

    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(final View v, final MotionEvent event) {
        if (event.getPointerCount() > 1) {
            //multi touch
            return true;
        }

        switch (event.getAction()) {
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN:
                downX = event.getX();
                break;
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_MOVE:
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_CANCEL:
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP:
                // set x so that it doesn't move
                event.setLocation(downX, event.getY());
                break;
        }
        return false;
    }
}

And just use it with a WebView:

 webView.setHorizontalScrollBarEnabled(false);
 webView.setOnTouchListener(new WebViewTouchListener());