MAUI application WebView control is not scrolling in Android using touch.

Question

Need help on my MAUI application that includes a WebView control which I load with an in memory html string.

When app runs on Android, scrolling cannot be done with touch. Scrolling does work with arrow keys.

The app does scroll by touch in iOS.

Answer 1

Hello,

This is an expected behavior. Android's native WebView control does not have the ability to scroll independently. You need to wrap the WebView with a ScrollView or Grid to solve this problem.

Please refer to the following code sample:

<ScrollView>

    <VerticalStackLayout>

        <WebView>

            ...

        </WebView>

    </VerticalStackLayout>

</ScrollView>

Best Regards,

Alec Liu.

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Answer 2

I just found out why I'm having this issue. I hope this helps someone...I ended up separating the code into a simple content page to test this out. What I added a few weeks ago, when I implemented the webview, is a hard coded widthrequest and heightrequest on the webview because it was not visible on iOS but was on Android. When I removed this just now it now works properly on Android. But now it does not show on iOS because the height is too small by default. So I added a an #if IOS entry in the code to only do the heightrequest for IOS and now it works in both.