Using WebView in Flutter: A Complete Guide (2025)

🧩 Step 3: Basic WebView Example

Here’s the simplest way to load a website

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:webview_flutter/webview_flutter.dart';

class MyWebViewPage extends StatefulWidget {
  const MyWebViewPage({super.key});

  @override
  State createState() => _MyWebViewPageState();
}

class _MyWebViewPageState extends State {
  late final WebViewController _controller;

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();

    _controller = WebViewController()
      ..setJavaScriptMode(JavaScriptMode.unrestricted)
      ..loadRequest(Uri.parse("https://flutter.dev"));
  }

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(title: const Text("Flutter WebView")),
      body: WebViewWidget(controller: _controller),
    );
  }
}

🧠 Best Practices

• Avoid loading heavy desktop websites

• Prefer responsive mobile websites

• Avoid enabling unrestricted JavaScript unless needed

• Use navigation delegates to prevent unwanted redirects

• For complex web apps, consider using in-app browser packages

🎉 Conclusion

Using WebView in Flutter is easy and powerful. Whether you want to embed a full website, payment gateway, or small HTML snippet — WebView gives you native performance and full control.

If your app heavily relies on the web, WebView can even serve as a hybrid bridge between Flutter and your existing site.