Series 2 of 2 — Part 3 of 4

Building DevFeed — Part 3: In-app WebView, Sharing Actions, and the INTERNET Permission

Series: Building DevFeed — A Proper Flutter MVVM App from Day One

With the feed working, the obvious next feature was letting users read articles. An in-app WebView gives a better experience than the system browser — you can add a progress indicator, handle navigation events, and keep users inside the app.

This post covers the WebView implementation, sharing actions, and a debugging lesson about Android permissions that cost me more time than it should have.

The WebView screen

I used the webview_flutter package. I made ArticleWebViewScreen a ConsumerStatefulWidget rather than ConsumerWidget because the WebViewController needs to be initialised in initState and stored as a widget field.…