Android ProgessBar while loading WebView

Question

In my application, I have a WebView which loads any URL from the internet. Now, sometimes due to slow networks the page takes a long time to load and the user s

Answer 1

This simple solution worked for me in KOTLIN:

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"
}