closing webview in android

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I am using Twitter4j but I need to authenticate a user with oAuth. The user needs to get a pin and input it into the app. When I load a webview with the url and the user accept's to give the app privileges, they receive a pin. How would they close the webview in order to input the pin. I cant close the webview in the emulator. Below is the method in the Async class where the webview is shown after the url is retrieved.

 protected void onPostExecute(String url) {

        WebView webview = new WebView(MainActivity.this);
        setContentView(webview);
        webview.loadUrl(url);


    }

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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You can't "close" a WebView. What you could do is hide it. Maybe this solution will shed some light - Hide WebView until JavaScript is done

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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answered Nov 30 '13 at 21:12

kiruwka · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-30T21:19:50.710

Well, you could

instead use another dedicated activity with mainly a webview [potentially also with 'done' button]. You could start that activity from your onPostExecute with intent, and then you will go back when user is done with it, or you could start that webview activity for result
Another option is to replace your webview when you are done with another view, for example by calling setContentView with another layout. I never did this myself, and not sure it will work easily, but I found that some people recommend using ViewFlipper for similar effect.

Hope that helps.

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '19 at 17:32

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This works for me:

webview.destroy();

answered May 14 '19 at 17:32

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered May 03 '17 at 12:58

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You can call finish() from anywhere inside the Activity class

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Jun 23 '20 at 04:37

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Add a close button and on its click set:

webview.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);   
webview.loadUrl("");

You can then reduce the height width of the web view to minimum.

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answered Jun 22 '20 at 16:06

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