Loading a url from WebView without showing it

Question

Is it possible to load a url from a WebView without having it attached to any layout (not visible)?

Yes. Just don't add it to your view. Create the WebView dynamically. — Jared Rummler
– Jared Rummler, Commented Aug 21, 2015 at 22:42

TacB0sS · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-21 22:45:29Z

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Yes, you can use your application context to instantiate your WebView:

WebView webView = new WebView(getApplicationContext()); webView.loadUrl("your-url");

Surprisingly this works... which means that a webview can actually be created with the application context and does not need a UI context which for me is a bit weird.

answered Aug 21, 2015 at 22:45

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Mikhail Naganov Over a year ago

It is absolutely normal. You can render off-screen and then display the result as you want. E.g. a ebook reader can render the pages of the book off-screen, and then when displaying, apply a visual effect for page turning, which would be quite hard to implement in CSS.

TacB0sS Over a year ago

Try to instantiate any other View with an ApplicationContext, most have unexpected side effects.

SeikoTheWiz Over a year ago

If I do it like this, I get the error: "validate_display:99 error 3008 (EGL_BAD_DISPLAY)"

TacB0sS Over a year ago

This solution works... (or at least worked) try loading a simple web page with just a label and see..

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