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Asked: 2026-05-13T12:31:51+00:00

I’m developing an Android application that uses a WebView to display the login page

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I’m developing an Android application that uses a WebView to display the login page for Facebook. The page loads beautifully, and I’m able to select the username/password textboxes, but typing in them will not work. That is, they definitely have input focus (they have the orange focus highlight box and a flashing cursor), but typing in them does absolutely nothing. I’m not certain, but I think maybe the form buttons are also playing up – they appear to be simply refreshing the page, rather than submitting the form.

Just to be clear, although I’m particularly interested in getting Facebook running, I’m sure that this isn’t a Facebook issue since other websites (Google, etc) also display the same behavior.

Does anyone have any ideas what might be the issue?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Turns out that it was apparently the WebView not having focus that was the issue.

    I discovered that using the arrow keys to get focus on the textboxes caused them to work, so I theorised that there was an issue somewhere with something not having focus, most likely the WebView not having focus. Sure enough, adding the following line seemed to fix the problem:

    webView.requestFocus(View.FOCUS_DOWN);

    I’m still at a loss to explain exactly why the issue occurred in the first place – the textboxes should work whether they receive focus from being tapped upon or through being “arrowed” to – but at least I have a solution that appears to work.

    Thanks for your input wf.

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