how to display progress while loading a url to webview in android?

I am loading url into webview:

WebView webview=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview); 
webview.loadUrl(url);

It's taking some time to load url, during which it shows a blank screen. I want to display a progress dialog while the url is loading:

ProgressDialog dialog = ProgressDialog.show(this, "HI","Loading......", true);

However, the above is code is not working. If any have any ideas, please help. Thanks in advance.

set a WebViewClient to your WebView, start your progress dialog on you onCreate() method an dismiss it when the page has finished loading in onPageFinished(WebView view, String url)

import android.app.Activity;
import android.app.AlertDialog;
import android.app.ProgressDialog;
import android.content.DialogInterface;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Window;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.widget.Toast;
 
public class Main extends Activity {
    private WebView webview;
    private static final String TAG = "Main";
    private ProgressDialog progressBar;  
 
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
 
        requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
 
        setContentView(R.layout.main);
 
        this.webview = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webview);
 
        WebSettings settings = webview.getSettings();
        settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webview.setScrollBarStyle(WebView.SCROLLBARS_OUTSIDE_OVERLAY);
 
        final AlertDialog alertDialog = new AlertDialog.Builder(this).create();
 
        progressBar = ProgressDialog.show(Main.this, "WebView Example", "Loading...");
 
        webview.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
                Log.i(TAG, "Processing webview url click...");
                view.loadUrl(url);
                return true;
            }
 
            public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
                Log.i(TAG, "Finished loading URL: " +url);
                if (progressBar.isShowing()) {
                    progressBar.dismiss();
                }
            }
 
            public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
                Log.e(TAG, "Error: " + description);
                Toast.makeText(activity, "Oh no! " + description, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                alertDialog.setTitle("Error");
                alertDialog.setMessage(description);
                alertDialog.setButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
                    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                        return;
                    }
                });
                alertDialog.show();
            }
        });
        webview.loadUrl("http://www.google.com");
    }
}

your main.xml layout

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    >
    <WebView android:id="@string/webview"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1" />
</LinearLayout>

You will have to over ride onPageStarted and onPageFinished callbacks

mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
		
		public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
			if (progressBar!= null && progressBar.isShowing()) {
				progressBar.dismiss();
			}
			progressBar = ProgressDialog.show(WebViewActivity.this, "Application Name", "Loading...");
		}
		
		public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
			view.loadUrl(url);
			
			return true;
		}

		public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
			if (progressBar.isShowing()) {
				progressBar.dismiss();
			}
		}

		public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
			alertDialog.setTitle("Error");
			alertDialog.setMessage(description);
			alertDialog.setButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
				public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
					return;
				}
			});
			alertDialog.show();
		}
	});

Check out the sample code. It help you.

 private ProgressBar progressBar;
 progressBar=(ProgressBar)findViewById(R.id.webloadProgressBar);
 WebView urlWebView= new WebView(Context);
    urlWebView.setWebViewClient(new AppWebViewClients(progressBar));
    					urlWebView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    					urlWebView.loadUrl(detailView.getUrl());

public class AppWebViewClients extends WebViewClient {
	 private ProgressBar progressBar;
	
	public AppWebViewClients(ProgressBar progressBar) {
		this.progressBar=progressBar;
		progressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
	}
	@Override
	public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		view.loadUrl(url);
		return true;
	}
	
	@Override
	public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		super.onPageFinished(view, url);
		progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
	}
}

Thanks.

You need to set an own WebViewClient for your WebView by extending the WebViewClient class.

You need to implement the two methods onPageStarted (show here) and onPageFinished (dismiss here).

More guidance for this topic can be found in Google's WebView tutorial

  public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode, String description, String failingUrl) {
        alertDialog.setTitle("Error");
        alertDialog.setMessage(description);
        alertDialog.setButton("OK", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int which) {
                return;
            }
        });
        alertDialog.show();
    }
});