Stop Inflating WebViews in XML: A Performance Fix for Heavy Content We had a delay(300) hiding a real initialization problem. Here’s what was actually happening — and the fix that made it …

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Loading heavy SVG content into an Android WebView declared in XML causes visible lag because Android inflates the WebView eagerly during layout inflation, before onViewCreated(), causing a race with Chromium's internal setup. A common band-aid is adding an artificial delay(300) before loading content. The real fix is replacing the XML WebView with a FrameLayout placeholder and creating the WebView programmatically inside onViewCreated(), ensuring initialization and content loading happen sequentially. This also prevents memory leaks by avoiding Activity context references and allows lazy initialization when the WebView may not be needed at all.

Stop Inflating WebViews in XML: A Performance Fix for Heavy Content

We had a delay(300) hiding a real initialization problem. Here’s what was actually happening — and the fix that made it disappear.

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