Load webview with large content in a scrollview in android

Question

I am trying to add a WebView and some other TextViews in a ScrollView. It works fine till the content size is small. But when the content increases (which is to be loaded in WebView), it throws an error saying:

View too large to fit into drawing cache, needs 'x' bytes, only 'y' available".

I tried all different flags and all answers on StackOverflow which I could find, but still unable to solve the issue. Is there a way to have a WebView inside ScrollView or not?

I can't use hardwareAccelerated flag, it makes the whole Activity slow.

You should turn off HardwareAcceleration and try once again, check this http://stackoverflow.com/a/21145043/1237175 — Ramesh_D, Jun 19 '14 at 04:59
I mentioned that I cannot turn off HardwareAcceleration as it makes the complete activity slow. — sanjeev, Jun 19 '14 at 05:01
If you put your web view in scrollview then it might be not work. Because web view has its own scrolling functionality so this is not working. — Piyush, Jun 19 '14 at 05:04
It works for smaller content. so that's not the problem. I found a solution myself, posting it as an answer please check. — sanjeev, Jun 19 '14 at 05:13

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 19 '14 at 05:21

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To make it work, I set ScrollView and WebView property:

android:layerType="software"

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answered Jun 19 '14 at 05:16

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 19 '14 at 05:14

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Make the WebView Height and Width as wrap_content. And Use ScrollView For whole layout page so that your TextViews can be visible.

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answered Jun 19 '14 at 04:52

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 19 '14 at 05:16

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You can use wrap_content or fill_parent for width and height in the XML.

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answered Jun 19 '14 at 05:04

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Load webview with large content in a scrollview in android

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