Android webview takes screenshot only from top of the page

Question

I am doing a very simple task of taking a screenshot from my webView into a Bitmap... I do it like this:

webView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(webView.getDrawingCache(false));
webView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
webView.draw(canvas);

The problem is that the final bitmap is always showing the top of my web page content! I actually need it to take the screenshot from where I have scrolled the content but this is not simply happening! I have been searching the net for two hours now but no one else seems to have a similar problem. any idea what could have gone wrong?

Answer 1

I guess, this is on Lollipop? If so, make sure you call WebView.enableSlowWholeDocumentDraw() (doc) before your first call to setContentView() that inflates a layout with WebView.

Answer 2

Actually, you don't need the last 2 lines.Just drop them.

webView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);  
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(webView.getDrawingCache(false));  
webView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(false);

will return the very bitmap you need, from what I've seen.