How to listen for a WebView finishing loading a URL?

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; 
            }
        }
    });

I am pretty partial to @NeTeInStEiN (and @polen) solution but would have implemented it with a counter instead of multiple booleans or state watchers (just another flavor but I thought might share). It does have a JS nuance about it but I feel the logic is a little easier to understand.

private void setupWebViewClient() {
    webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        private int running = 0; // Could be public if you want a timer to check.

        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView webView, String urlNewString) {
            running++;
            webView.loadUrl(urlNewString);
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            running = Math.max(running, 1); // First request move it to 1.
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            if(--running == 0) { // just "running--;" if you add a timer.
                // TODO: finished... if you want to fire a method.
            }
        }
    });
}

I found one elegant solution as well, have not tested it rigorously though:

public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            super.onPageFinished(view, url);
            if (webView.getProgress() == 100) {
                progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                webView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
        } 

If you want show a progress bar you need to listen for a progress change event, not just for the completion of page:

mWebView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient(){

            @Override
            public void onProgressChanged(WebView view, int newProgress) {

                //change your progress bar
            }


        });

BTW if you want display just an Indeterminate ProgressBar overriding the method onPageFinished is enough

I have simplified NeTeInStEiN's code to be like this:

mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        private int       webViewPreviousState;
        private final int PAGE_STARTED    = 0x1;
        private final int PAGE_REDIRECTED = 0x2;

        @Override
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String urlNewString) {
            webViewPreviousState = PAGE_REDIRECTED;
            mWebView.loadUrl(urlNewString);
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            super.onPageStarted(view, url, favicon);
            webViewPreviousState = PAGE_STARTED;
            if (dialog == null || !dialog.isShowing())
                dialog = ProgressDialog.show(WebViewActivity.this, "", getString(R.string.loadingMessege), true, true,
                        new OnCancelListener() {

                            @Override
                            public void onCancel(DialogInterface dialog) {
                                // do something
                            }
                        });
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {

            if (webViewPreviousState == PAGE_STARTED) {
                dialog.dismiss();
                dialog = null;
            }

        }
 });

It is easy to understand, OnPageFinished if the previous callback is on onPageStarted, so the page is completely loaded.

Use setWebViewClient() and override onPageFinished()

You can trace the Progress Staus by the getProgress method in webview class.

Initialize the progress status

private int mProgressStatus = 0;

then the AsyncTask for loading like this:

private class Task_News_ArticleView extends AsyncTask<Void, Void, Void> {
    private final ProgressDialog dialog = new ProgressDialog(
            your_class.this);

    // can use UI thread here
    protected void onPreExecute() {
        this.dialog.setMessage("Loading...");
        this.dialog.setCancelable(false);
        this.dialog.show();
    }

    @Override
    protected Void doInBackground(Void... params) {
        try {
            while (mProgressStatus < 100) {
                mProgressStatus = webview.getProgress();

            }
        } catch (Exception e) {

        }
        return null;

    }

    protected void onPostExecute(Void result) {
        if (this.dialog.isShowing()) {
            this.dialog.dismiss();
        }
    }
}

thanks for the answers. It helped me, but I had to improve it a bit for my needs. I had several pagestarts and finishes so I added a timer which checks if atfer the pagefinish is started a new pagestart. Okay, bad explanation. See the code :)

myWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
        boolean loadingFinished = true;
        boolean redirect = false;

        long last_page_start;
        long now;

        // Load the url
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            if (!loadingFinished) {
                redirect = true;
            }

            loadingFinished = false;
            view.loadUrl(url);
            return false;
        }

        @Override
        public void onPageStarted(WebView view, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
            Log.i("p","pagestart");
            loadingFinished = false;
            last_page_start = System.nanoTime();
            show_splash();
        }

        // When finish loading page
        public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
            Log.i("p","pagefinish");
            if(!redirect){
                loadingFinished = true;
            }
            //call remove_splash in 500 miSec
            if(loadingFinished && !redirect){
                now = System.nanoTime();
                new android.os.Handler().postDelayed(
                        new Runnable() {
                            public void run() {
                                remove_splash();
                            }
                        },
                        500);
            } else{
                redirect = false;
            }
        }
        private void show_splash() {
            if(myWebView.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE) {
                myWebView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
                myWebView_splash.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
        }
        //if a new "page start" was fired dont remove splash screen
        private void remove_splash() {
            if (last_page_start < now) {
                myWebView.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                myWebView_splash.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            }
        }

});

for Kotlin users:

webView.webViewClient = object : WebViewClient() {
            override fun onPageFinished(view: WebView?, url: String?) {
                // do your logic
            }
        }

there are a lot of methods that you can override though

Here's a novel method for detected when a URL has loaded by utilising Android's capability for JavaScript hooks. Using this pattern, we exploit JavaScript's knowledge of the document's state to generate a native method call within the Android runtime. These JavaScript-accessible calls can be made using the @JavaScriptInterface annotation.

This implementation requires that we call setJavaScriptEnabled(true) on the WebView's settings, so it might not be suitable depending on your application's requirements, e.g. security concerns.

src/io/github/cawfree/webviewcallback/MainActivity.java (Jelly Bean, API Level 16)

package io.github.cawfree.webviewcallback;

/**
 *  Created by Alex Thomas (@Cawfree), 30/03/2017.
 **/

import android.net.http.SslError;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.JavascriptInterface;
import android.webkit.SslErrorHandler;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;
import android.widget.Toast;

/** An Activity demonstrating how to introduce a callback mechanism into Android's WebView. */
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    /* Static Declarations. */
    private static final String HOOK_JS             = "Android";
    private static final String URL_TEST            = "http://www.zonal.co.uk/";
    private static final String URL_PREPARE_WEBVIEW = "";

    /* Member Variables. */
    private WebView mWebView = null;

    /** Create the Activity. */
    @Override protected final void onCreate(final Bundle pSavedInstanceState) {
        // Initialize the parent definition.
        super.onCreate(pSavedInstanceState);
        // Set the Content View.
        this.setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        // Fetch the WebView.
        this.mWebView = (WebView)this.findViewById(R.id.webView);
        // Enable JavaScript.
        this.getWebView().getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        // Define the custom WebClient. (Here I'm just suppressing security errors, since older Android devices struggle with TLS.)
        this.getWebView().setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() { @Override     public final void onReceivedSslError(final WebView pWebView, final SslErrorHandler pSslErrorHandler, final SslError pSslError) { pSslErrorHandler.proceed(); } });
        // Define the WebView JavaScript hook.
        this.getWebView().addJavascriptInterface(this, MainActivity.HOOK_JS);
        // Make this initial call to prepare JavaScript execution.
        this.getWebView().loadUrl(MainActivity.URL_PREPARE_WEBVIEW);
    }

    /** When the Activity is Resumed. */
    @Override protected final void onPostResume() {
        // Handle as usual.
        super.onPostResume();
        // Load the URL as usual.
        this.getWebView().loadUrl(MainActivity.URL_TEST);
        // Use JavaScript to embed a hook to Android's MainActivity. (The onExportPageLoaded() function implements the callback, whilst we add some tests for the state of the WebPage so as to infer when to export the event.)
        this.getWebView().loadUrl("javascript:" + "function onExportPageLoaded() { " + MainActivity.HOOK_JS + ".onPageLoaded(); }" + "if(document.readyState === 'complete') { onExportPageLoaded(); } else { window.addEventListener('onload', function () { onExportPageLoaded(); }, false); }");
    }

    /** Javascript-accessible callback for declaring when a page has loaded. */
    @JavascriptInterface @SuppressWarnings("unused") public final void onPageLoaded() {
        // Display the Message.
        Toast.makeText(this, "Page has loaded!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    /* Getters. */
    public final WebView getWebView() {
        return this.mWebView;
    }

}

res/layout/activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<WebView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/webView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
/>

Essentially, we're appending an additional JavaScript function that is used to test the state of the document. If it's loaded, we launch a custom onPageLoaded() event in Android's MainActivity; otherwise, we register an event listener that updates Android once the page is ready, using window.addEventListener('onload', ...);.

Since we're appending this script after the call to this.getWebView().loadURL("") has been made, it's probable that we don't need to 'listen' for the events at all, since we only get a chance to append the JavaScript hook by making a successive call to loadURL, once the page has already been loaded.

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.

The renderer will not finish rendering when the OnPageFinshed method is called or the progress reaches 100% so both methods don't guarantee you that the view was completely rendered.

But you can figure out from OnLoadResource method what has been already rendered and what is still rendering. And this method gets called several times.

        @Override
        public void onLoadResource(WebView view, String url) {
            super.onLoadResource(view, url);
           // Log and see all the urls and know exactly what is being rendered and visible. If you wanna know when the entire page is completely rendered, find the last url from log and check it with if clause and implement your logic there.
            if (url.contains("assets/loginpage/img/ui/forms/")) {
                // loginpage is rendered and visible now.
               // your logic here.

            }
        }

Loading url with SwipeRefreshLayout and ProgressBar:

UrlPageActivity.java:

    WebView webView;
    SwipeRefreshLayout _swipe_procesbar;
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_url_page);


        String url = "http://stackoverflow.com/";

        _swipe_procesbar = (SwipeRefreshLayout)findViewById(R.id.url_path_swipe_procesbar);

        _swipe_procesbar.post(new Runnable() {
                                  @Override
                                  public void run() {
                                      _swipe_procesbar.setRefreshing(true);
                                  }
                              }
        );

        webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.url_page_web_view);
        webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

        webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
            public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {
                _swipe_procesbar.setRefreshing(false);
                _swipe_procesbar.setEnabled(false);
            }
        });
        webView.loadUrl(url);
    }

activity_url_page.xml:

<android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/url_path_swipe_procesbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content">
        <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
            xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools" android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            tools:context="com.test.test1.UrlPageActivity">


            <WebView
                android:layout_width="fill_parent"
                android:layout_height="fill_parent"
                android:id="@+id/url_page_web_view" />
        </RelativeLayout>

</android.support.v4.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout>

Here's a method which allows you to register a Runnable to be executed once a particular web address has finished loading. We associate each Runnable with a corresponding URL String in a Map, and we use the WebView's getOriginalUrl() method to choose the appropriate callback.

package io.github.cawfree.webviewcallback;

/**
 *  Created by Alex Thomas (@Cawfree), 30/03/2017.
 **/

import android.net.http.SslError;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.webkit.SslErrorHandler;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/** An Activity demonstrating how to introduce a callback mechanism into Android's WebView. */
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    /* Member Variables. */
    private WebView               mWebView;
    private Map<String, Runnable> mCallbackMap;

    /** Create the Activity. */
    @Override protected final void onCreate(final Bundle pSavedInstanceState) {
        // Initialize the parent definition.
        super.onCreate(pSavedInstanceState);
        // Set the Content View.
        this.setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        // Fetch the WebView.
        this.mWebView     = (WebView)this.findViewById(R.id.webView);
        this.mCallbackMap = new HashMap<>();
        // Define the custom WebClient. (Here I'm just suppressing security errors, since older Android devices struggle with TLS.)
        this.getWebView().setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {
            /** Handle when a request has been launched. */
            @Override public final void onPageFinished(final WebView pWebView, final String pUrl) {
                // Determine whether we're allowed to process the Runnable; if the page hadn't been redirected, or if we've finished redirection.
                if(pUrl.equals(pWebView.getOriginalUrl())) {
                    // Fetch the Runnable for the OriginalUrl.
                    final Runnable lRunnable = getCallbackMap().get(pWebView.getOriginalUrl());
                    // Is it valid?
                    if(lRunnable != null) { lRunnable.run(); }
                }
                // Handle as usual.
                super.onPageFinished(pWebView, pUrl);
            }
            /** Ensure we handle SSL state properly. */
            @Override public final void onReceivedSslError(final WebView pWebView, final SslErrorHandler pSslErrorHandler, final SslError pSslError) { pSslErrorHandler.proceed(); }
        });
        // Assert that we wish to visit Zonal's website.
        this.getWebView().loadUrl("http://www.zonal.co.uk/");
        // Align a Callback for Zonal; this will be serviced once the page has loaded.
        this.getCallbackMap().put("http://www.zonal.co.uk/", new Runnable() {     @Override public void run() { /* Do something. */ } });
    }

    /* Getters. */
    public final WebView getWebView() {
        return this.mWebView;
    }

    private final Map<String, Runnable> getCallbackMap() {
        return this.mCallbackMap;
    }

}

Use this it should help.`var currentUrl = "google.com" var partOfUrl = currentUrl.substring(0, currentUrl.length-2)

webView.setWebViewClient(object: WebViewClient() {

override fun onLoadResource(WebView view, String url) {
     //call loadUrl() method  here 
     // also check if url contains partOfUrl, if not load it differently.
     if(url.contains(partOfUrl, true)) {
         //it should work if you reach inside this if scope.
     } else if(!(currentUrl.startWith("w", true))) {
         webView.loadurl("www.$currentUrl")

     } else if(!(currentUrl.startWith("h", true))) {
         webView.loadurl("https://$currentUrl")

     } else { ...}


 }

override fun onReceivedSslError(view: WebView?, handler: SslErrorHandler?, error: SslError?) {
   // you can call again loadUrl from here too if there is any error.
}

//You should also override other override method for error such as onReceiveError to see how all these methods are called one after another and how they behave while debugging with break point. } `

this will been called before he start loading the page (and get the same parameters as onFinished())

@Override
public void onPageCommitVisible(WebView view, String url) {
   super.onPageCommitVisible(view, url);
}

Kotlin solution First Solution is create webviewclient as private class and it is more efficient. In the other hand second soltion is sorter :)

First Solution

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
  override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
    val webView : WebView = findViewById(R.id.webView)
    webView.webViewClient = MyWebViewClient()
 }

private class MyWebViewClient : WebViewClient() {
    override fun onPageStarted(view: WebView?, url: String?, favicon: Bitmap?) {
        println("Load Started")
    }
    override fun onPageFinished(view: WebView, url: String) {
        println("Load Finished")
    }
  }
}

Second Solution

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
  override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
    val webView : WebView = findViewById(R.id.webView)
    webView.webViewClient = object : WebViewClient() {
        override fun onPageStarted(view: WebView?, url: String?, favicon: Bitmap?) {
            println("Load Started")
        }
        override fun onPageFinished(view: WebView, url: String) {
            println("Load Finished")
        }
     }
 }

Both solution actually same. So onPageStarted function run when page started to load in the other hang onPageFinished function works when page loaded entirely. You may want to write your as an example loadFinishedRun() function inside onPageFinished funtion.

Better late than never