Question

I am trying to do something very simple at the initialization of a WebView instance, such that the plain background color is replaced by an image (drawable) until some lengthy operation completes (which then loads a web page, of course). I am trying to accomplish this with:

myWebView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.myImage);

Android doesn’t complain about anything but it doesn’t display the image.

If I replace the above with:

myWebView.setBackgroundColor(Color.parseColor("#123456"));

The background color takes effect without any problem.

What am I missing? What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Wow! That was quick (answering my own question):

myWebView.setBackgroundColor(0);
myWebView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.myImage);

That’s all I had to do. It works!