Android 2.2 webview search problem

Question

I have a webview in my activity. Now when I use WebView.findAll() method to search text in webview it is not highlighting the matching words.

It works fine in Android 1.6 but is not working in 2.2.

Answer 1

There is an issue in Android issue tracker about this: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9018

I placed this code right after WebView.findAll(), and it made highlighting working:

try
{
    Method m = WebView.class.getMethod("setFindIsUp", Boolean.TYPE);
    m.invoke(webView, true);
}
catch (Throwable ignored){}

Answer 2

In android 4.0.3, seems the setFindIsUp is a private method. So above code won't work. As getMethod() method won't return the private methods. Following is a work-around to call the private method which works for 4.0.3:

try{
    //Can't use getMethod() as it's a private method
    for(Method m : WebView.class.getDeclaredMethods()){
        if(m.getName().equals("setFindIsUp")){
            m.setAccessible(true);
            m.invoke(view, true);
            break;
        }
    }
}catch(Exception ignored){}