Using WebViews in Flutter - Flutter In Focus
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when dealing with Flutter WebView problems, especially gesture recognizer scrolling conflicts and keeping WebView state across widgets, and as an official reference for the webview_flutter library.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2019 to 2021.
What it is
A short Flutter In Focus episode where Emily Fortuna of the Flutter team explains the WebView widget, which renders a web page inside an app without opening a browser. It covers when to use WebView to reuse an existing web workflow, and touches on gesture recognizers and keys.
What people said
Recommends Tiago Santos · 2020-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Vertical scroll difficulty with webview in PageView ( flutter )”
If I've understand correctly, you simply need to remove the gesture recognizer. (Pageview scroll is horizontal so shouldn't affect page view vertical scroll.) You can watch the moment of the video you referenced where this is mentioned: [this video]
Recommends eeqk · 2021-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Make it harder to switch tabs in TabView when displaying WebView”
Add gestureRecognizers as a WebView parameter: WebView( gestureRecognizers: { Factory<VerticalDragGestureRecognizer>( () => VerticalDragGestureRecognizer() ) }, initialUrl: widget.url, ); As mentioned here: [LINK] And explained here: [this video]
Cites Emil Adz · 2019-09 · Stack Overflow · on “Flutter: How to get notified on url redirection and prevent redirections using WebView object:”
I'm using the webview_flutter [LINK] library which as I understand is the recommended library for WebView in flutter based on the fact that this is the library that is used by Google in their video tutorials such as this one: Using WebViews in Flutter - Flutter In Focus [this video] . Now I'm trying to understand how to accomplish 2 tasks using this library: How to get notified on url redirections in WebView? How to prevent url redirections in WebView? During my research to found answers to those questions I see that people recommend using another library for showing WebView and getting url redirections notifications, but those libraries have other problems (for example: shown AlertDialog will ap
Cites Renê Guilherme Nucci · 2020-05 · Stack Overflow · on “Hero transition across 2 pages using webviews - Flutter”
I'm trying to achieve Hero transition between two WebViews (same webviews/URL), using this as reference ( [this video] ) but that video just says that I have to use GlobalKey to make this works. but, I have no found an example how to make this with webviews, because I need the SAME state into 2 diferent widgets, the examples that I found, use the global key just to invoke some method or retrieve some data from the other widget. Have somebody used Hero Transitions with WebView's? All my attemps ends either 'Duplicate global key' or 'the second webviews reloads page'. Thanks...
Cites Nitneuq · 2020-08 · Stack Overflow · on “Vertical scroll difficulty with webview in PageView ( flutter )”
I have add a WebView page on my PageView but some users tel me have trouble to scroll vertically. I tested on my samsung galaxy s7 I have no problem. But with my iphone I faced this difficulty. When it happen, user need to be perfecly vertical and continue to scoll, if it vertical but after little bit shiffted the vertical scroll is loose, and if the shiffted is too big it scroll horizontally because of PageView. I have no problem when I use listview. How to improve webview scroll ? I see this video who refer this problem [this video] So I follow this recommandation WebView( initialUrl: 'my url', gestureRecognizers: Set() ..add(Factory<VerticalDragGestureRecognizer>( () => VerticalDragGestureReco