Android WebView progress bar

Question

I have looked at a question similar to this here but as I am a newbie could someone explain how to get this to work in a WebView or at least how to set a 10 second time delay so people know that it's loading?

Answer 1

For a horizontal progress bar, you first need to define your progress bar and link it with your XML file like this, in the onCreate:

final TextView txtview = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tV1);
final ProgressBar pbar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.pB1);

Then, you may use onProgressChanged Method in your WebChromeClient:

MyView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
            public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int progress) {
               if(progress < 100 && pbar.getVisibility() == ProgressBar.GONE){
                   pbar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.VISIBLE);
                   txtview.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
               }

               pbar.setProgress(progress);
               if(progress == 100) {
                   pbar.setVisibility(ProgressBar.GONE);
                   txtview.setVisibility(View.GONE);
               }
            }
        });

After that, in your layout you have something like this

<TextView android:text="Loading, . . ." 
    android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceSmall"
    android:id="@+id/tV1" android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:textColor="#000000"></TextView>

<ProgressBar android:id="@+id/pB1"
    style="?android:attr/progressBarStyleHorizontal" android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:padding="2dip">
</ProgressBar>

This is how I did it in my app.