---
title: "WebView in Android"
description: "WebView is an android UI component that is used in different purpose like display a web page, display online components, display a HTML Content and ap"
author: "Arti Mishra"
published: 2018-04-17
updated: 2019-09-07
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12868/webview-in-android
category: "android apps"
tags: ["android", "webview"]
reading_time: 2 minutes
---
# WebView in Android
WebView is an **android UI component** that is used in different purpose like display a **web page, online components, displaying HTML Content and apply HTML Formatting on your android app.** \
Generally, it is used to **display web page** in android. And android web page can be loaded from same application or project. For displaying a webpage in android webview uses **webkit engine**. And for loading data, android provided two methods loadUrl() and loadData() to display a content on webpage. These are some uses of WebView-
## 1. Display online content-
WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
myWebView.loadUrl(“https://www.mySite.com”);
## 2. Display HTML Webpage -
myWebView.loadUrl(locationOfHTMlFile);
## 3. Displaying HTML Formatting-
String data =”WebView Example
”;
mywebview.loadData(data,”text/html”,”utf-8”);
## Android WebView Example :
Provide internet permission on AndroidManifest.xml file.
```
```
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**activity_main.xml** \
```
```
## \
## ActivityMain.java
```
package com.example.msclient009.webviewexample;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.Menu;
import android.webkit.WebView;
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
WebView webView1=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView1);
WebView webView2=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView2);
String data = "WebView Examle
Hello
";
webView1.loadData(data, "text/html", "UTF-8");
webView2.loadUrl("https://www.mindstick.com");
}
}
```
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## Output :
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