diff --git a/lib/web_ui/lib/src/engine/text_editing/text_editing.dart b/lib/web_ui/lib/src/engine/text_editing/text_editing.dart
index 2be73503270a9..f8c9127d27b63 100644
--- a/lib/web_ui/lib/src/engine/text_editing/text_editing.dart
+++ b/lib/web_ui/lib/src/engine/text_editing/text_editing.dart
@@ -1415,9 +1415,12 @@ abstract class DefaultTextEditingStrategy with CompositionAwareMixin implements
 
   /// Prevent default behavior for mouse down, up and move.
   ///
-  /// When normal mouse events are not prevented, in desktop browsers, mouse
-  /// selection conflicts with selection sent from the framework, which creates
+  /// When normal mouse events are not prevented, mouse selection
+  /// conflicts with selection sent from the framework, which creates
   /// flickering during selection by mouse.
+  ///
+  /// On mobile browsers, mouse events are sent after a touch event,
+  /// see: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=119216#c11.
   void preventDefaultForMouseEvents() {
     subscriptions.add(
         DomSubscription(activeDomElement, 'mousedown', (_) {
@@ -1704,6 +1707,8 @@ class AndroidTextEditingStrategy extends GloballyPositionedTextEditingStrategy {
                 owner.sendTextConnectionClosedToFrameworkIfAny();
               }
             }));
+
+    preventDefaultForMouseEvents();
   }
 
   @override
diff --git a/lib/web_ui/test/engine/text_editing_test.dart b/lib/web_ui/test/engine/text_editing_test.dart
index 830be7b916b8a..4e6a3763063a4 100644
--- a/lib/web_ui/test/engine/text_editing_test.dart
+++ b/lib/web_ui/test/engine/text_editing_test.dart
@@ -1896,6 +1896,60 @@ Future<void> testMain() async {
       hideKeyboard();
     });
 
+    test('prevent mouse events on Android', () {
+      // Regression test for https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/124483.
+      debugOperatingSystemOverride = OperatingSystem.android;
+      debugBrowserEngineOverride = BrowserEngine.blink;
+
+      /// During initialization [HybridTextEditing] will pick the correct
+      /// text editing strategy for [OperatingSystem.android].
+      textEditing = HybridTextEditing();
+
+      final MethodCall setClient = MethodCall(
+        'TextInput.setClient',
+        <dynamic>[123, flutterMultilineConfig],
+      );
+      sendFrameworkMessage(codec.encodeMethodCall(setClient));
+
+      // Editing shouldn't have started yet.
+      expect(defaultTextEditingRoot.ownerDocument?.activeElement, domDocument.body);
+
+      const MethodCall show = MethodCall('TextInput.show');
+      sendFrameworkMessage(codec.encodeMethodCall(show));
+
+      // The "setSizeAndTransform" message has to be here before we call
+      // checkInputEditingState, since on some platforms (e.g. Desktop Safari)
+      // we don't put the input element into the DOM until we get its correct
+      // dimensions from the framework.
+      final List<double> transform = Matrix4.translationValues(10.0, 20.0, 30.0).storage.toList();
+      final MethodCall setSizeAndTransform = configureSetSizeAndTransformMethodCall(150, 50, transform);
+      sendFrameworkMessage(codec.encodeMethodCall(setSizeAndTransform));
+
+      final DomHTMLTextAreaElement textarea = textEditing!.strategy.domElement! as DomHTMLTextAreaElement;
+      checkTextAreaEditingState(textarea, '', 0, 0);
+
+      // Can set editing state and preserve new lines.
+      const MethodCall setEditingState = MethodCall(
+        'TextInput.setEditingState',
+        <String, dynamic>{
+          'text': '1\n2\n3\n4\n',
+          'selectionBase': 8,
+          'selectionExtent': 8,
+          'composingBase': null,
+          'composingExtent': null,
+        },
+      );
+      sendFrameworkMessage(codec.encodeMethodCall(setEditingState));
+      checkTextAreaEditingState(textarea, '1\n2\n3\n4\n', 8, 8);
+
+      // 'mousedown' event should be prevented.
+      final DomEvent event = createDomEvent('Event', 'mousedown');
+      textarea.dispatchEvent(event);
+      expect(event.defaultPrevented, isTrue);
+
+      hideKeyboard();
+    });
+
     test('sets correct input type in iOS', () {
       // Test on ios-safari only.
       if (browserEngine == BrowserEngine.webkit &&