Justson/AgentWeb

AgentWeb is an Android library that enhances the standard WebView component by applying performance optimizations and improving loading behavior. Its core purpose is to eliminate the blank white screen that users often see when a WebView first loads, and to reduce overall page load latency through pre-initialization and instance reuse strategies.

The library achieves this through several key techniques. It pre-initializes the WebView rendering engine early in the app lifecycle so the first page load is not delayed by kernel startup. It also pre-loads the dedicated WebView process before it is needed, avoiding the system overhead of forking a new process at page load time. Additionally, AgentWeb reuses a single WebView object across multiple page loads to reduce memory allocation and improve loading speed, and it displays a progress indicator immediately upon URL request to provide visual feedback during initial connection or kernel setup.

These performance optimizations are designed to make WebView-based content feel more responsive and native within Android applications. The library focuses on the practical challenge of WebView startup latency, offering a set of techniques that can be integrated into an app's lifecycle to improve the user experience when loading web content.