Android Webview content is not fitting into the screen while toggling its visibility

Question

I have a listview where each row has one textview and webview. With the use of viewholder object, I am re-using the row while scrolling. Initially data is not loaded in the webview and its visibility state is set to Gone. On tap of ListView item, I am loading the webview data using webview.loadDataWithBaseURL() method and setting its visibility state to Visible. Then again if you tap on the same item, its state is set to Gone. Now the problem is that when I am resetting the webview visibility to Visible and loading the data again, webview content is not fitting into the screen. I have set the following meta tag in webview content.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, target-densityDpi=device-dpi>

Also, I have set the following methods.

webview.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true); webview.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webview.setInitialScale(1);

This setting works fine when I initially load the webview data on item tap. But next time when I again toggle the Visibility and load the data again, the above viewport settings are not working.

Can any body please assist on the same.

Make it Simple Make it Simple · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-03T05:53:54

Your question is not very clear but if I'm guessing you mean the webview is not expanding to fit the whole screen? Please post your code to support your question.

To make the webview expand to the whole screen, add the webview in your activity layout xml and make sure you set the layout_width and layout_height to fill_parent. Here's a simple example:

     <LinearLayout 
  xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
  android:orientation="vertical"
  android:layout_width="fill_parent"
  android:layout_height="fill_parent">
  <WebView  
      android:id="@+id/webview"
      android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
      android:layout_height="fill_parent"/>
  </LinearLayout>

Android Webview content is not fitting into the screen while toggling its visibility

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