84.8 Loading the Web Page into the WebView

Before the web page can be printed, it needs to be loaded into the WebView instance. For the purposes of this tutorial, this will be performed by a call to the loadUrl() method of the WebView instance, which will be placed in a method named configureWebView() and called from within the onStart() method of the MainActivity class. Edit the MainActivity.kt file, therefore, and modify it as follows:

package com.ebookfrenzy.webprint

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import android.webkit.WebView

import android.webkit.WebViewClient

import android.webkit.WebResourceRequest

import android.content.Context

 

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {

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   override fun onStart() {

        super.onStart()

        configureWebView()

    }

 

    private fun configureWebView() {

 

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