Show a progress bar on a child tab until the WebView loads

Question

In an Android app I am using a TabView and one of the tabs shows a WebView. But the page is blank until the web page loads. How would one show a progress bar until the page

Answer 1

I use a ProgressBar for this. With a layout like this:

I hide and show the progress indicator using:

 WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.WebView);

 final ProgressBar progess = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.ProgressBar);

  webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
  public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
    progess.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
  }

  public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
    progess.setVisibility(View.GONE);
  }
}