How to listen for a WebView finishing loading a URL?

Question

I have a WebView that is loading a page from the Internet. I want to show a ProgressBar until the loading is complete.

How do I listen for

Answer 1

Here's a method which allows you to register a Runnable to be executed once a particular web address has finished loading. We associate each Runnable with a corresponding URL String in a Map, and we use the WebView's getOriginalUrl() method to choose the appropriate callback.

package io.github.cawfree.webviewcallback;

/**
 *  Created by Alex Thomas (@Cawfree), 30/03/2017.
 **/

import android.net.http.SslError;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.webkit.SslErrorHandler;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/** An Activity demonstrating how to introduce a callback mechanism into Android's WebView. */
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    /* Member Variables. */
    private WebView               mWebView;
    private Map mCallbackMap;

    /** Create the Activity. */
    @Override protected final void onCreate(final Bundle pSavedInstanceState) {
        // Initialize the parent definition.
        super.onCreate(pSavedInstanceState);
        // Set the Content View.
        this.setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        // Fetch the WebView.
        this.mWebView     = (WebView)this.findViewById(R.id.webView);
        this.mCallbackMap = new HashMap<>();
        // Define the custom WebClient. (Here I'm just suppressing security errors, since older Android devices struggle with TLS.)
        this.getWebView().setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
            /** Handle when a request has been launched. */
            @Override public final void onPageFinished(final WebView pWebView, final String pUrl) {
                // Determine whether we're allowed to process the Runnable; if the page hadn't been redirected, or if we've finished redirection.
                if(pUrl.equals(pWebView.getOriginalUrl())) {
                    // Fetch the Runnable for the OriginalUrl.
                    final Runnable lRunnable = getCallbackMap().get(pWebView.getOriginalUrl());
                    // Is it valid?
                    if(lRunnable != null) { lRunnable.run(); }
                }
                // Handle as usual.
                super.onPageFinished(pWebView, pUrl);
            }
            /** Ensure we handle SSL state properly. */
            @Override public final void onReceivedSslError(final WebView pWebView, final SslErrorHandler pSslErrorHandler, final SslError pSslError) { pSslErrorHandler.proceed(); }
        });
        // Assert that we wish to visit Zonal's website.
        this.getWebView().loadUrl("http://www.zonal.co.uk/");
        // Align a Callback for Zonal; this will be serviced once the page has loaded.
        this.getCallbackMap().put("http://www.zonal.co.uk/", new Runnable() {     @Override public void run() { /* Do something. */ } });
    }

    /* Getters. */
    public final WebView getWebView() {
        return this.mWebView;
    }

    private final Map getCallbackMap() {
        return this.mCallbackMap;
    }

}