Android Webview cant focus on its elements

Question

I have a android TV app and so all my controls are using the focus(remote). I have a webview which loads up the url and displays the content. Now this page has a section in the centre and there are 2 buttons inside this section. Now the focus is on the section itself and it doesnt go inside and focus on the buttons. If I click on up and down buttons on the remote, the page just scrolls up and down but the focus doesnt move inside to the buttons. Any idea how I can solve this? Thanks.

The webpage is from a third party so cant do anything on it. @PratikButani — Gaurav, Jul 20 '15 at 10:43
The webpage is yours, but webview is not. So I wondering if calling `webView.requestFocus(View.FOCUS_DOWN);` will be of any help. As it will call focus to your webview only. — Darpan, Jul 27 '15 at 03:26
I tried that. It doesnt help. And webview mine. Webpage is not. — Gaurav, Jul 27 '15 at 09:49
@ssh There are 2 buttons which are inside a section in the webview. the focus comes on the entire section but doesnt go a level deeper on the buttons — Gaurav, Jul 29 '15 at 13:39

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '15 at 10:16

Hi you can try something like this

mWebview.setOnTouchListener(new View.OnTouchListener() { 
    @Override
    public boolean onTouch(View view, MotionEvent event) {
        switch (event.getAction()) { 
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN: 
            case MotionEvent.ACTION_UP: 
                if (view.hasFocus() == false) { 
                    view.requestFocus(); 
                } 
                break; 
         } 
         return false; 
    }
});

This gives focus to the whole section and not the buttons which I want — Gaurav, Jul 29 '15 at 13:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 27 '15 at 10:26

I think you need a wrapper on your webview, which holds navigation above on webview.

After that disable all user-actions to this webview.(touch,focus,etc..)

Setup buttons and redirect user actions to webview.

For ex.

UP button click -> redirect to scroll webview.

Android Webview cant focus on its elements

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