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WebView

Easily load web pages while allowing user interaction.

Work in progress

This control supports iOS and Android only; a desktop and browser versions are in the development.

Packaging

To build your Flet app that uses WebView control add --include-packages flet_webview to flet build command, for example:

flet build apk --include-packages flet_webview

Examples​

A simple webview implementation using this class could be like:

import flet as ft

def main(page: ft.Page):
    wv = ft.WebView(
        "https://flet.dev",
        expand=True,
        on_page_started=lambda _: print("Page started"),
        on_page_ended=lambda _: print("Page ended"),
        on_web_resource_error=lambda e: print("Page error:", e.data),
    )
    page.add(wv)

ft.app(main)

Properties​

bgcolor​

Set the background color of the WebView.

javascript_enabled​

Enable or disable the JavaScript execution on the page. Note, that disabling the JavaScript execution on the page may result to unexpected web page behaviour.

Specify a prefix for links to prevent navigating or downloading.

url​

Start the WebView by loading the url value.

Events​

on_page_ended​

Fires when all the web page loading processes are ended.

on_web_resource_error​

Fires when there is error with loading a web page resource.

on_page_started​

Fires soon as the first loading process of the web page is started.