How can I remove the white background in a webview?

Question

I have the following problem: I am loading a html file into a webview. The background color of my html file and my activity is black. What happens is that there is a short white flash at the beginning when finished loading because the background color of the webview is white.

Can I remove that flash? Or set that webview color to black? I already tried setting the background color in the webview xml to black, but it didn't work.

Answer 1

I had the same problem and this solved it for me:

Just below the existing

mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.activity_main_webview);

I added the line

mWebView.setBackgroundColor(Color.BLACK);

To do any good it must be before

mWebView.loadUrl(...)

Answer 2

Yes you can. Try:

webview.setBackgroundResource(Color.Black);