Android: take screenshot of whole WebView in Nougat ( Android 7 )

Question

I use below code to take screenshot from a WebView. it works well in Android 6 and lower versions but in Android 7 it takes only the visible part of the webview.

// before setContentView
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
            WebView.enableSlowWholeDocumentDraw();
        }
...
// before set webview url
webView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
// after html load complete
final Bitmap b = Bitmap.createBitmap(webView.getMeasuredWidth(),
                webView.getContentHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas bitmapHolder = new Canvas(b);
        webView.draw(bitmapHolder);

but bitmap b is not complete. How can I take screenshot of whole WebView in Android Nougat?

Edit:
I found out the webView.getContentHeight doesn't works well. I hard coded the whole webview height and it works well. So the Question is : How can I get the Whole WebView Content Height in Android Nougat?

King of Masses · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-21T06:28:20.423

Use the following methods instead of getMeasuredWidth() & getContentHeight() method:

computeHorizontalScrollRange(); -> for width 
computeVerticalScrollRange(); -> for height

these two methods will return the entire scrollable width/height rather than the actual widht/height of the webview on screen

To achieve this you need to make WebViews getMeasuredWidth() & getContentHeight() methods public like below

public class MyWebView extends WebView
{
    public MyWebView(Context context)
    {
        super(context);
    }

    public MyWebView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs)
    {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public MyWebView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle)
    {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    public int computeVerticalScrollRange()
    {
        return super.computeVerticalScrollRange();
    }

}

in other work around you can also use a view tree observer to calculate the webview height as shown in this answer

`computeVerticalScrollRange()` has protected access in `android.webkit.WebView` — Mneckoee, Jul 21 '17 at 06:23

Mani · Answer 2 · 2017-07-21T06:29:34.843

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Remove the below code block

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        WebView.enableSlowWholeDocumentDraw();
    }

Disabling the entire HTML document has a significant performance cost.

As per the documentation,

For apps targeting the L release, WebView has a new default behaviour that reduces memory footprint and increases performance by intelligently choosing the portion of the HTML document that needs to be drawn.

Might be worth looking into this

Answer for Edit 1: To retrieve the webview height after rendering https://stackoverflow.com/a/22878558/2700586

edited Jul 21 '17 at 06:29

answered Jul 21 '17 at 06:11

Mani

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I comment it and try again but the problem happened again. this line is necessary for android L. – Mneckoee Jul 21 '17 at 06:13
I have updated the answer please refer https://stackoverflow.com/q/30223117/2700586 – Mani Jul 21 '17 at 06:14
My problem is not in Android L. it is in Android N ( nougat, 7). – Mneckoee Jul 21 '17 at 06:17
Same solution would be applicable for app targeting above L – Mani Jul 21 '17 at 06:18
I edited the question. the `webView.getContentHeight` doesn't works well. it returns the height of visible part. – Mneckoee Jul 21 '17 at 06:21
Encouraging you to search the SO before questioning. – Mani Jul 21 '17 at 06:30

Android: take screenshot of whole WebView in Nougat ( Android 7 )

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