How to prevent a scrollview from scrolling to a webview after data is loaded?

I had the same problem, after hours of trying several ideas, what finally worked for me was simply adding the descendantFocusability attribute to the ScrollView's containing LinearLayout, with the value blocksDescendants. In your case:

<LinearLayout    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="wrap_content"    android:orientation="vertical"    android:descendantFocusability="blocksDescendants" >

Haven't had the problem reoccur since.

You can simply add this to your LinearLayout: android:focusableInTouchMode="true". It works for me.

 <LinearLayout    android:layout_width="match_parent"    android:layout_height="wrap_content"    android:focusableInTouchMode="true"    android:orientation="vertical" >

You should create new class extend ScrollView, then Override requestChildFocus:

public class MyScrollView extends ScrollView {    @Override     public void requestChildFocus(View child, View focused) {         if (focused instanceof WebView )            return;        super.requestChildFocus(child, focused);    }}

Then in your xml layout, using:

<MyScrollView     xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"    android:layout_width="fill_parent"    android:layout_height="fill_parent"    android:background="@color/background" >

That works for me. The ScrollView will not auto scroll to the WebView anymore.