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Using WebView in Kotlin: Display Web Content in Your Android App

In Kotlin, you can use WebView to display web content within your Android app. WebView allows you to load web pages, show web content, and interact with JavaScript code from within your Kotlin-based Android app.

Here are the steps to use WebView in Kotlin: In the AndroidMenifest.xml file, add the Internet permission to connect the network connection.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>  

Add WebView to your layout XML: Open your layout XML file (e.g., activity_main.xml) and add the WebView element to display the web content.

<!-- res/layout/activity_main.xml -->
<WebView
    android:id="@+id/webView"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

Load the web content in the activity: In your Kotlin activity file (e.g., MainActivity.kt), get a reference to the WebView and load the desired URL or HTML content.

import android.os.Bundle
import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.webkit.WebView
import android.webkit.WebViewClient

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

    private lateinit var webView: WebView

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)

        webView = findViewById(R.id.webView)

        // Enable JavaScript (optional, if you need to interact with JavaScript code on the web page)
        webView.settings.javaScriptEnabled = true

        // Set a WebViewClient to handle page navigation and other WebView events
        webView.webViewClient = object : WebViewClient() {
            override fun shouldOverrideUrlLoading(view: WebView, url: String): Boolean {
                view.loadUrl(url)
                return true
            }
        }

        // Load a URL or HTML content into the WebView
        webView.loadUrl("https://www.androidpaper.co.in")
     
    }
}