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Pinch Zoom in webview [Android]

On my website, which is loaded in the webview, there is a map. There are also java scripts that detects double tap for zoom, dragging etc. But is it possible to have a javascript that detects the use of pinch zoom ? there are several examples of it working on an iphone, and on my website there is a script for the pinch zoom but it is only working on iphone.....

Is it possible to get it to work on Android ?

Thanks

Solution

  • There's an open-source library called android-pinch that you can include in your project to enable pinch zoom if you switch your WebView to a WebImageView. Here's an example of usage...

    // create the WebImageView object from xml
WebImageView img = (WebImageView) findViewById(R.id.main_pic);
// fetches the image in a background thread
img.setImageFromURL("http://www.mysite.com/mypicture.jpg");
// enable pinch-zoom abilities on the image
new PinchImageView(img);