Android WebView Zoom out limited

Question

I am using a WebView in Android. After loading a webpage I would like to use the on-screen Zoom out control. After one or two clicks it becomes grayed and no longer allows me to zoom out any further. When I call the zoomOut() function in code, it also does not zoom out any further.

What is limiting how much I can zoom out. I would expect to be able to zoom out much further than I am allowed - to the point of making the page too small to read. But, zoom out is disabled well before I reach this level of zoom.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Barry.

Answer 1

You should probably do this myWebView.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true)

You'll then see that you can zoom out farther than what you usually see on default settings.

Answer 2

Take a look at WebView.setInitialScale(...) - I'm not sure if it will help you with what you want but setting it to 50, for example, will scale the WebView to 50% of its normal size. I think that will allow you to zoom in and then out again to the (initial) smaller size.