Introduction

A flutter plugin which allows the usage of the android webkit API without needing to display anything.

Setup

Android

• The following permission has to be added to your AndroidManifest.xml.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

IOS

• Not yet implemented, because I currently do not have access to a machine running MacOS.

Usage

1. The plugin has to be initialized before being able to use it. It is advised to do this in the main function, before the runApp function is called.

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:webview_without_view/webview_without_view.dart' as webview;

import 'home_page.dart';


Future<void> main() async {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();

  await webview.initialize();

  runApp(HomePage());
} 

2. After successfully initializing the webview_without_view plugin, you can load a page and retrieve the HTML source, if you wish to. (See the example app for more information)

3. When you are done with using the functions from webview_without_view, call dispose.

  @override
  void dispose() {
    webview.dispose();
    super.dispose();
  }