Blurry text on Android 4.4 webviews

Text in my app's WebViews display very blurry on Android 4.4. Works fine in prior versions of Android. Also displays properly after I rotate the device (even if I rotate back to the original orientation.) Anyone know what is causing this? enter image description here Here's a screenshot:

Solution

It seems that the hardware acceleration was causing the problem. Adding

android:hardwareAccelerated="false"

in the AndroidManifest.xml for the particular activity made the problem go away.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/graphics/hardware-accel.html#controlling

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=26374&q=blurry&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars