Web View takes up the whole screen

arin · by **arin** » Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:25 am

Hi I have a screen that is divided into 3 absolute layouts, now I want the 2nd layout to display a webpage while the 1st and the 3rd displays something else. I cannot achieve this. Whenever I am running the program and the webview inside the 2nd layout gets activated it takes up the whole screen. Is there any way out?

heres how I constructed my main layout :

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 
<LinearLayout
 
android:id="@+id/widget28"
 
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
 
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
 
android:orientation="vertical"
 
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
 
>
 
<AbsoluteLayout
 
android:id="@+id/widget29"
 
android:layout_width="320px"
 
android:layout_height="50px"
 
>
 
<TextView
 
android:id="@+id/widget31"
 
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
 
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
 
android:layout_marginBottom="5px"
 
android:text=""
 
android:textSize="18sp"
 
android:typeface="monospace"
 
android:layout_x="87px"
 
android:layout_y="10px"
 
>
 
</TextView>
 
</AbsoluteLayout>
 
<AbsoluteLayout
 
android:id="@+id/widget33"
 
android:layout_width="320px"
 
android:layout_height="330px">
 
<WebView android:id="@+id/webview" android:layout_width="320px"
 
                android:layout_height="330px" />
 
</AbsoluteLayout>
 
<AbsoluteLayout
 
android:id="@+id/widget34"
 
android:layout_width="320px"
 
android:layout_height="50px"
 
>
 
<ImageView
 
android:id="@+id/widget35"
 
android:layout_width="48px"
 
android:layout_height="48px"
 
android:layout_x="14px"
 
android:layout_y="1px"
 
android:background="@drawable/idisk">
 
</ImageView>
 
<ImageView
 
android:id="@+id/widget55"
 
android:layout_width="48px"
 
android:layout_height="48px"
 
android:layout_x="82px"
 
android:layout_y="1px"
 
android:background="@drawable/idiskgreen">
 
</ImageView>
 
<ImageView
 
android:id="@+id/widget56"
 
android:layout_width="48px"
 
android:layout_height="48px"
 
android:layout_x="149px"
 
android:layout_y="1px"
 
android:background="@drawable/movie">
 
</ImageView>
 
<ImageView
 
android:id="@+id/widget57"
 
android:layout_width="48px"
 
android:layout_height="48px"
 
android:layout_x="216px"
 
android:layout_y="1px"
 
android:background="@drawable/photo">
 
</ImageView>
 
</AbsoluteLayout>
 
</LinearLayout>
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The java looks like this:

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public class MainView extends Activity {
 
        WebView webview;
 
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
 
    @Override
 
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
 
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
 
        try{
 
        webview = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
 
        webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
 
        webview.loadUrl("http://m.twitter.com");
 
        } catch(Exception e){
 
                e.printStackTrace();
 
        }
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the web view takes up the whole screen although I want it to display in the certain area in the screen. Is there any other way to do it? Please help

arin · by **arin** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:55 pm

wow, there are 64 views with not a single reply.. and u call them geeks?

Anyway I found a solution here:
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-webviews.html

Web View takes up the whole screen

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