Android Webview - Webpage should fit the device screen

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3916330

29-09-2019
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Question

I have tried the following to fit the webpage based on the device screen size.

mWebview.setInitialScale(30);

and then set the metadata viewport

<meta name="viewport" content="width=320, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; minimum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, target-densityDpi=medium-dpi"/>

But nothing works, webpage is not fixed to the device screen size.

Can anyone tell me how to get this?

Solution

You have to calculate the scale that you need to use manually, rather than setting to 30.

private int getScale(){
    Display display = ((WindowManager) getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay(); 
    int width = display.getWidth(); 
    Double val = new Double(width)/new Double(PIC_WIDTH);
    val = val * 100d;
    return val.intValue();
}

Then use

WebView web = new WebView(this);
web.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);
web.setInitialScale(getScale());

OTHER TIPS

You can use this

    WebView browser = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
    browser.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    browser.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

this fixes size based on screen size.

Friends,

I found a lot of import and great informations from you. But, the only way works for me was this way:

webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.noticiasWebView);
webView.setInitialScale(1);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
webView.setScrollBarStyle(WebView.SCROLLBARS_OUTSIDE_OVERLAY);
webView.setScrollbarFadingEnabled(false);
webView.loadUrl("http://www.resource.com.br/");

I am working on Android 2.1 because of the kind of devices from the company. But I fixed my problem using the part of informations from each one.

Thanks you!

These settings worked for me:

wv.setInitialScale(1);
wv.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
wv.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

setInitialScale(1) was missing in my attempts.

Although documentation says that 0 will zoom all the way out if setUseWideViewPort is set to true but 0 did not work for me and I had to set 1.

Try with this HTML5 tips

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/mobile/mobifying.html

And with this if your Android Version is 2.1 or greater

  WebView.getSettings().setLayoutAlgorithm(LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN);

All you need to do is simply

webView.getSettings().setLayoutAlgorithm(LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN);
webView.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
webView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

These work for me and fit the WebView to screen width:

// get from xml, with all size set "fill_parent"  
webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview_in_layout);  
// fit the width of screen
webView.getSettings().setLayoutAlgorithm(LayoutAlgorithm.SINGLE_COLUMN); 
// remove a weird white line on the right size
webView.setScrollBarStyle(WebView.SCROLLBARS_OUTSIDE_OVERLAY);

Thanks above advises and White line in eclipse Web view

I have same problem when I use this code

webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
}

so may be you should remove it in your code
And remember to add 3 modes below for your webview

    webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);  
    webview.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
    webview.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);

this fixes size based on screen size

WebView browser = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
browser.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
browser.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);
browser.getSettings().setMinimumFontSize(40);

This works great for me since the text size has been set to really small by .setLoadWithOverViewMode and .setUseWideViewPort.

You have to use HTML in your webView in this case. I solved this using following code

webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null,
                "<!DOCTYPE html><html><body style = \"text-align:center\"><img src= "
                        + \"http://www.koenvangorp.be/photos/2005_09_16-moon_2000.jpg\"
                        + " alt=\"pageNo\" width=\"100%\"></body></html>",
                "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

Making Changes to the answer by danh32 since the display.getWidth(); is now deprecated.

private int getScale(){
    Point p = new Point();
    Display display = ((WindowManager) getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay(); 
    display.getSize(p);
    int width = p.x; 
    Double val = new Double(width)/new Double(PIC_WIDTH);
    val = val * 100d;
    return val.intValue();
}

Then use

WebView web = new WebView(this);
web.setPadding(0, 0, 0, 0);
web.setInitialScale(getScale());

This seems like an XML problem. Open the XML document containing your Web-View. Delete the padding code at the top.

Then in the layout , add

android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"

In the Web-View, add

android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"

This makes the Web-View fit the device screen.

I had video in html string, and width of web view was larger that screen width and this is working for me.

Add these lines to HTML string.

<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
</head>

Result after adding above code to HTML string:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

<head>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
</head>


</html>

int PIC_WIDTH= webView.getRight()-webView.getLeft();

The getWidth method of the Display object is deprecated. Override onSizeChanged to get the size of the WebView when it becomes available.

WebView webView = new WebView(context) {

    @Override
    protected void onSizeChanged(int w, int h, int ow, int oh) {

        // if width is zero, this method will be called again
        if (w != 0) {

            Double scale = Double.valueOf(w) / Double.valueOf(WEB_PAGE_WIDTH);

            scale *= 100d;

            setInitialScale(scale.intValue());
        }

        super.onSizeChanged(w, h, ow, oh);
    }
};

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

will work, but remember to remove something like:

<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no"/>

if existed in the html file or change user-scalable=yes, otherwise it won't.

This will help in adjusting the emulator according to the webpage:

WebView wb;
//CALL THIS METHOD
wb.setInitialScale(50);

You can set the intial scale in percentage as shown above.

In theory the combination of:

settings.setLayoutAlgorithm(LayoutAlgorithm.NARROW_COLUMNS);

with

settings.setUseWideViewPort(false)

fixes the problem, wrapping the content and fitting to the screen. But the NARROW_COLUMNS has been deprecated. I advice you to read this thread below that explores the issue in detail: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=62378

here's an updated version, not using deprecated methods, based upon @danh32's answer:

protected int getScale(Double contentWidth) {
    if(this.getActivity() != null) {
        DisplayMetrics displaymetrics = new DisplayMetrics();
        this.getActivity().getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(displaymetrics);
        Double val = displaymetrics.widthPixels / contentWidth * 100d;
        return val.intValue();
    } else {
        return 100;
    }
}

to be used alike:

int initialScale = this.getScale(420d);
this.mWebView.setInitialScale(initialScale);

setLoadWithOverviewMode(true) - loads the WebView completely zoomed out
setUseWideViewPort(true) makes the Webview have a normal viewport (such as a normal desktop browser), while when false the webview will have a viewport constrained to its own dimensions (so if the webview is 50px*50px the viewport will be the same size)