How to listen for a WebView finishing loading a URL?

Question

I have a WebView that is loading a page from the Internet. I want to show a ProgressBar until the loading is complete.

How do I listen for

Answer 1

Just to show progress bar, "onPageStarted" and "onPageFinished" methods are enough; but if you want to have an "is_loading" flag (along with page redirects, ...), this methods may executed with non-sequencing, like "onPageStarted > onPageStarted > onPageFinished > onPageFinished" queue.

But with my short test (test it yourself.), "onProgressChanged" method values queue is "0-100 > 0-100 > 0-100 > ..."

private boolean is_loading = false;

webView.setWebChromeClient(new MyWebChromeClient(context));

private final class MyWebChromeClient extends WebChromeClient{
    @Override
    public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int newProgress) {
        if (newProgress == 0){
            is_loading = true;
        } else if (newProgress == 100){
            is_loading = false;
        }
        super.onProgressChanged(view, newProgress);
    }
}

Also set "is_loading = false" on activity close, if it is a static variable because activity can be finished before page finish.