[webview_flutter] Add gesture blocking policy to WebKitWebViewWidgetCreationParams

[burakJs]

Reworked per review feedback: the policy is now passed from the Dart side instead of being hardcoded in the plugin registration.

Adds WebKitWebViewWidgetCreationParams.gestureBlockingPolicy, forwarded to UiKitView.gestureBlockingPolicy. It defaults to UiKitViewGestureBlockingPolicy.fallbackToPluginDefault, so behaviour is unchanged unless an app opts in — doNotBlockGesture stays a last resort the app chooses, not a new default.

The previous revision of this PR registered the platform view with doNotBlockGesture unconditionally; that change is fully reverted here, so WebViewFlutterPlugin.swift is untouched.

Why the minimum Flutter version is bumped

UiKitView.gestureBlockingPolicy landed in flutter/flutter#185126 and first shipped in stable 3.47.0 (it is not present in 3.44.x), so flutter: ">=3.47.0" is required to reference it at all. validate enforces a matching Dart lower bound, hence sdk: ^3.13.0, and that made this a minor version bump (3.27.0) rather than a patch.

Two follow-on consequences, both mechanical:

• script/tool's getDartSdkForFlutterSdk map had no entry for Flutter 3.47.0, so validate failed until one was added.
• Raising the package's language version to Dart 3.13 changes dart format output for files that were already checked in. That reformat is isolated in the second commit (Reformat for the Dart 3.13 language version) so the API change stays readable in the first.

Before / after

Both recorded on the same build against the same third-party cashier page, iOS 26.4 simulator (iPhone 17 Pro). gestureBlockingPolicy is the only difference between the two runs.

Before — fallbackToPluginDefault, i.e. the eager policy the plugin registers the platform view with. The first touch is delivered; after that the web view is dead: taps do nothing and drags never move window.scrollY.

freezed.mov

After — gestureBlockingPolicy: UiKitViewGestureBlockingPolicy.doNotBlockGesture. Scrolling and tapping keep working for the rest of the session.

fixed.mov

Minimal repro

Still owed. I built a standalone project that mirrors the page shape which triggers it for us — a form taller than the viewport embedding four cross-origin iframes — and it does not reproduce, so the trigger is narrower than page geometry alone. The page that does trigger it reliably is a closed-source payment cashier I cannot share. I will keep reducing it.

One data point in the meantime: flutter_inappwebview also registers its iOS platform view via the two-argument registrar.register(_:withId:) (so, eager), and shows the same symptom on iOS 26 on the same page — which suggests the underlying issue is not specific to webview_flutter.

Related: flutter/flutter#175099, flutter/flutter#179907
Fixesflutter/flutter#191267

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[gemini-code-assist]

Code Review

This pull request registers the iOS platform view with the hit-test based gesture blocking policy (FlutterPlatformViewGestureRecognizersBlockingPolicyDoNotBlockGesture) to prevent web views from becoming unresponsive to touches. It also adds a corresponding unit test and bumps the package version to 3.26.1. Feedback suggests using the more idiomatic Swift enum case .doNotBlockGesture instead of the verbose Objective-C name in both the plugin registration and the test file.

[gemini-code-assist]

In Swift, Objective-C enums are imported with shortened, idiomatic names. You can use .doNotBlockGesture instead of the verbose FlutterPlatformViewGestureRecognizersBlockingPolicyDoNotBlockGesture to make the code cleaner and more idiomatic.

 registrar.register(
viewFactory, withId:"plugins.flutter.io/webview",
gestureRecognizersBlockingPolicy:.doNotBlockGesture)

[burakJs]

.doNotBlockGesture does not compile here. The policy is declared in FlutterPlugin.h as a plain C enum:

typedefenum {
FlutterPlatformViewGestureRecognizersBlockingPolicyEager,
FlutterPlatformViewGestureRecognizersBlockingPolicyWaitUntilTouchesEnded,
FlutterPlatformViewGestureRecognizersBlockingPolicyDoNotBlockGesture,
} FlutterPlatformViewGestureRecognizersBlockingPolicy;

Because it is not declared with NS_ENUM, the Swift importer does not shorten the case names. Building an app against Flutter 3.47.0 with the shortened form fails with:

Swift Compiler Error: Type 'FlutterPlatformViewGestureRecognizersBlockingPolicy' has no member 'doNotBlockGesture'

So the fully qualified constant is intentional. Happy to switch if the enum is ever annotated for Swift.

[hellohuanlin]

We should pass in the policy from the dart side instead: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/f6061d0003a7a9e0cb30a45379c4c4bec0412c40/packages/flutter/lib/src/services/platform_views.dart#L1630

I'm glad that the new doNotBlockGesture policy works for you. However, this policy is designed as the last resort to deal with bugs of the platform view itself (e.g. WKWebView).

So it would be great if you can provide a reproducible project so we can look further.

[burakJs]

Thanks for the review, and understood on doNotBlockGesture being a last resort rather than a default.

I'm still actively on this and will follow up on both points:

1. Reproducible project — I'll put together a minimal app that shows the web view going unresponsive after the first interaction on iOS 26 and link it here, so the underlying platform-view/WebKit behaviour can be investigated properly instead of just being worked around at the registration site.
2. Passing the policy from the Dart side — that makes sense; hardcoding it in WebViewFlutterPlugin takes the decision away from the app. I'll look into plumbing it through the plugin's Dart layer so it's opt-in per web view, and rework this PR in that shape if you'd prefer that over the unconditional change.

I'd rather land the right fix than the convenient one, so I'll hold this PR until the repro is up. Please leave it open in the meantime — I'll ping you here once both are ready.

[burakJs]

Done — the policy now comes from the Dart side and the plugin registration is back to what it was on main.

WebKitWebViewWidgetCreationParams.gestureBlockingPolicy is forwarded to UiKitView.gestureBlockingPolicy, defaulting to fallbackToPluginDefault. So nothing changes for existing apps, and doNotBlockGesture stays an explicit opt-in rather than a new default — which matches your point about it being a last resort.

One consequence worth flagging: UiKitView.gestureBlockingPolicy first shipped in stable 3.47.0, so the package's minimum Flutter had to move to >=3.47.0 (and Dart to ^3.13.0 for consistency, making this 3.27.0). That also needed a getDartSdkForFlutterSdk entry for 3.47.0 in script/tool, and it changes dart format output for some already-checked-in files — that reformat is isolated in the second commit so the API change stays readable.

Still working on the repro project; I'll link it here rather than hold the code change for it. One data point while I put it together: flutter_inappwebview also registers its iOS platform view through the two-argument registrar.register(_:withId:), i.e. eager, and shows the same symptom on iOS 26 in the same app. Two independent plugins with the same default and the same failure suggests this is not webview_flutter-specific, which may help narrow down where the arena state is getting stranded.

[hellohuanlin]

Two independent plugins with the same default and the same failure suggests this is not webview_flutter-specific, which may help narrow down where the arena state is getting stranded.

This is likely a bug in WKWebView, which is used by both this package & flutter_inappwebview, so it happens on both.

[burakJs]

That's fair — I was reading the shared eager default as the common factor, but WKWebView itself is just as good an explanation for the same data, and I don't have anything that distinguishes the two yet. So I've taken the causal wording out of the README and the doc comment; I'll leave the cause open until there's a repro that actually shows one.

Still putting the minimal project together and I'll link it here.

(Also force-pushed the branch: the commits carried a co-author trailer that was failing the CLA check. Only the commit messages and the two doc changes above differ from what you reviewed.)

[gemini-code-assist]

Using the idiomatic Swift enum case .doNotBlockGesture simplifies the assertion and improves readability.

 #expect(registrar.registeredGestureRecognizersBlockingPolicy ==.doNotBlockGesture)

[burakJs]

Same reason as the other comment: the enum is declared as a plain C typedef enum rather than NS_ENUM, so the Swift importer keeps the full constant names and .doNotBlockGesture fails to compile.

[hellohuanlin]

We should pass in the policy from the dart side instead: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/blob/f6061d0003a7a9e0cb30a45379c4c4bec0412c40/packages/flutter/lib/src/services/platform_views.dart#L1630

I'm glad that the new doNotBlockGesture policy works for you. However, this policy is designed as the last resort to deal with bugs of the platform view itself (e.g. WKWebView).

So it would be great if you can provide a reproducible project so we can look further.

[hellohuanlin]

I would avoid this description, since we don't know what's happening yet.

[burakJs]

Thanks — done. The README no longer claims the arena state is stranded; it just describes the symptom and what the policy does instead:

By default the plugin lets the engine block the web view's gesture recognizers through Flutter's gesture arena. If a web view stops responding to touches after the first interaction, deriving the blocking decision from hit testing instead can work around it:

The flutter/flutter#175099 link reference is removed along with it.

[hellohuanlin]

I'd delete these 2 since we are not 100% sure this is indeed the cause yet.

[burakJs]

Thanks — removed. Both bullets and the See also: block are gone, and so is the paragraph above them that made the same claim about stranded arena state. What's left only describes the behaviour and the trade-off:

/// Setting this to [UiKitViewGestureBlockingPolicy.doNotBlockGesture]/// derives the blocking decision from hit testing instead of Flutter's/// gesture arena, which can work around a web view that stops responding to/// touches, at the cost of the web view potentially recognizing a gesture/// that should have been blocked.

[hellohuanlin]

The change seems straight forward. Before we land it, could you update your description with a screenshot or a video of the bug fix for future reference?

[burakJs]

Thanks for the review, and for the correction on forceResetStateIfNeeded — I had mis-attributed that path; good to know it was about the iPad pencil bug rather than this one.

I've added before/after recordings to the description. Both are the same build against the same cashier page on an iOS 26.4 simulator, with gestureBlockingPolicy as the only difference: with the plugin's registration default (eager) the web view goes dead after the first touch, with doNotBlockGesture scrolling and tapping keep working.

On the reproducible project — still owed, and I fully agree doNotBlockGesture should stay a last resort rather than something apps reach for by default. That is why this revision keeps it opt-in with fallbackToPluginDefault as the default, so nothing changes for anyone who does not explicitly ask for it. I built a standalone app that mirrors the page shape which triggers it for us (a form taller than the viewport embedding four cross-origin iframes) and it does not reproduce, so the trigger is narrower than page geometry alone. The page that does trigger it reliably is a closed-source payment cashier I cannot share, but I will keep trying to reduce it.

If it would help narrow this toward an Apple radar, I am happy to instrument anything specific on the native side (recognizer states, hitTest results, touch delivery) on the page where it does reproduce and report back.

Thanks again for the time on this.

[hellohuanlin]

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[burakJs]

@hellohuanlin The videos are in the description now — both the Before and After recordings are embedded under the "Before / after" section. When I posted the earlier comment the uploads were still processing on GitHub's side, so they wouldn't have rendered for you yet; that timing is on me and I should have confirmed they were live before saying so. They've since finished uploading and are visible now.

To be clear on the content: both are the same build on an iOS 26.4 simulator against the same cashier page, with gestureBlockingPolicy as the only variable — fallbackToPluginDefault (dead after first touch) vs doNotBlockGesture (stays responsive). Happy to re-record or capture anything more specific if the current clips aren't sufficient.