How to detect single Tap on WebView

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How to detect single Tap on the WebView. I am displaying WebView as a ViewPager page. So, I can't use OnTouchListener. And OnClickListener doesn't work on WebView.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 16 '13 at 19:04

If you had a link to get the event you can use something like this with shouldOverrideUrlLoading:

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {

            @Override
            public void onReceivedSslError(WebView view, SslErrorHandler handler, SslError error) {
                handler.proceed();
            }

            @Override
            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                try {
                    String host = null;
                    if (null != url && null != (host = Uri.parse(url).getHost())) {
                        if (host.equals("myclikableUrl")) {
                            clickEvent();
                        } 

                        return true;
                    } else {

                        return false;
                    }
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    return false;
                }
            }.....
});

Nope, I don't have any links in the `WebView`. I want to detect tap on the whole `WebView` — Manjunath, Nov 16 '13 at 19:19
I don't know your view hierarchy but can't you set an onClickListener on child view of ViewPager?(I am guessing childViews are webpages?) It may work. — letitthebee, Nov 16 '13 at 19:32
I have a ViewPager, in which few pages are WebViews. I want to detect single Tap (OR Click) on WebViews. If I handle Touch on WebView, it doesn't allow me swipe the ViewPager pages. OnClickListsner doesn't work. Also, the WebView is scrollable Horizontally & Verically. — Manjunath, Nov 16 '13 at 19:42

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '13 at 08:24

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Try to crete your own class that extends WebView and here override dispatchTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev). Also you could add GestureDetector and catch single tap on webview http://developer.android.com/training/gestures/detector.html

answered Nov 20 '13 at 08:24

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