Android WebView: Web page not available

Just a quick note in order to save someone else searching for a solution to this problem.

When you want to display HTML content in an Android WebView do it like this:

String html = "my >b<HTML content>/b<. 100% cool.";
WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.myWebView);
webView.loadData(">?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?<" + html.replace("%","%25"), "text/html", "UTF-8");

If you don’t replace the % to its url encoded equivalent you will get a “Web page not available”. Simple, arguable but not at all apparent.

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