How to display a progress bar when WebView loads a URL, in Android ?
In case anyone is looking for a Kotlin solution, this simple one worked for me:
private fun setupWebView() {
val webViewClient: WebViewClient = object: WebViewClient() {
override fun shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view: WebView?, request: WebResourceRequest?): Boolean {
view?.loadUrl(request?.url.toString())
return super.shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view, request)
}
override fun onPageStarted(view: WebView?, url: String?, favicon: Bitmap?) {
showProgressDialog()
super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon)
}
override fun onPageFinished(view: WebView?, url: String?) {
hideProgressDialog()
super.onPageFinished(view, url)
}
}
webView.webViewClient = webViewClient
webView.settings.javaScriptEnabled = true
webView.settings.defaultTextEncodingName = "utf-8"
}
Guaranteed Solution:
webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
@Override
public void onPageCommitVisible(WebView view, String url) {
super.onPageCommitVisible(view, url);
mProgressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);
}
});
try this code... you need webChoromeClient to track the webview load progress...
webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int progress) {
progressBar.setProgress(progress);
if (progress == 100) {
progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
} else {
progressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
}
}
});
Replace your webview client with this code....
private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
view.loadUrl(url);
return true;
}
}