Extend WebViewClient and call onPageFinished() as follows:
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
// do your stuff here
}
});
@ian this is not 100% accurate. If you have several iframes in a page you will have multiple onPageFinished (and onPageStarted). And if you have several redirects it may also fail. This approach solves (almost) all the problems:
boolean loadingFinished = true;
boolean redirect = false;
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String urlNewString) {
if (!loadingFinished) {
redirect = true;
}
loadingFinished = false;
webView.loadUrl(urlNewString);
return true;
}
@Override
public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url) {
loadingFinished = false;
//SHOW LOADING IF IT ISNT ALREADY VISIBLE
}
@Override
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
if (!redirect) {
loadingFinished = true;
//HIDE LOADING IT HAS FINISHED
} else {
redirect = false;
}
}
});
UPDATE:
According to the documentation: onPageStarted will NOT be called when the contents of an embedded frame changes, i.e. clicking a link whose target is an iframe.
I found a specific case like that on Twitter where only a pageFinished was called and messed the logic a bit. To solve that I added a scheduled task to remove loading after X seconds. This is not needed in all the other cases.
UPDATE 2:
Now with current Android WebView implementation:
boolean loadingFinished = true;
boolean redirect = false;
mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
@Override
public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(
WebView view, WebResourceRequest request) {
if (!loadingFinished) {
redirect = true;
}
loadingFinished = false;
webView.loadUrl(request.getUrl().toString());
return true;
}
@Override
public void onPageStarted(
WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
loadingFinished = false;
//SHOW LOADING IF IT ISNT ALREADY VISIBLE
}
@Override
public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
if (!redirect) {
loadingFinished = true;
//HIDE LOADING IT HAS FINISHED
} else {
redirect = false;
}
}
});