WebView is a view that display web pages inside your application. According to Android, “this class is the basis upon which you can roll your own web browser or simply display some online content within your Activity. It uses the WebKit rendering engine to display web pages and includes methods to navigate forward and backward through a history, zoom in and out, perform text searches and more. In order to add WebView to your application, you have to add <WebView>element to your XML layout file.