One of those easy questions shot up on Stack Overflow where a few people quickly jump in with an answer. How do you set a gradient background on a view?
Three answers later and the question poster refines his question: “What about a WebView?” While we all assumed the answer to be the same, WebViews ignore any background drawable used while a background colour is set. The default background colour for a WebView is white, so you need to make it transparent.
Simply specify 0 as your colour and add a drawable in code or via layout XML.
WebView webview = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.wv); webview.setBackgroundColor(0); webview.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.gradient);
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