Android WebView use setWideViewPort, disable double-tap zoom but keep pinch zoom?

Question

I am using this code and it works exactly as I want. But I have to implemented another feature on double tap and would like to disable the double tap zooming (but keeping the pi

Answer 1

The GestureDetector with "one(first) finger" solution does not work reliably. The web view is still sometimes zoomed on Galaxy S3 Android 4.0.4. An additional WebViewClient like this can be used to restore the zoom scale when the view is zoomed:

public class NoZoomedWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    private static final String LOG_TAG = "NoZoomedWebViewClient";
    private static final long STABLE_SCALE_CALCULATION_DURATION = 2 * 1000;

    private long   stableScaleCalculationStart;
    private String stableScale;  // Avoid comparing floats
    private long   restoringScaleStart;

    NoZoomedWebViewClient() {
        stableScaleCalculationStart = System.currentTimeMillis();
    }

    @Override
    public void onScaleChanged(final WebView view, float oldScale, float newScale) {
        Log.d(LOG_TAG, "onScaleChanged: " + oldScale + " -> " + newScale);

        long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
        boolean calculating = (now - stableScaleCalculationStart) < STABLE_SCALE_CALCULATION_DURATION;
        if (calculating) {
            stableScale = "" + newScale;
        } else if (!stableScale.equals("" + newScale)) {
            boolean zooming = (now - restoringScaleStart) < STABLE_SCALE_CALCULATION_DURATION;
            if (!zooming) {
                Log.d(LOG_TAG, "Zoom out to stableScale: " + stableScale);
                restoringScaleStart = now;
                view.zoomOut();

                // Just to make sure, do it one more time
                view.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        view.zoomOut();
                    }
                }, STABLE_SCALE_CALCULATION_DURATION);
            }
        }
    }
}