Why cant I initialize the Webview

im just starting out with android studio, i have imported WebKit but those imports are grayed. and i cant initialize the webview “private WebView webview” shows errors how to do it correctly?

import android.webkit.WebView
import android.webkit.WebViewClient
import android.webkit.WebChromeClient
import android.webkit.WebSettings
import android.app.Activity
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity
import android.os.Bundle



class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    private WebView webview
    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
    }
}

Answer

I was using kotlin instead of java that was the issue (beginner mistake lol)

my issue was that i couldn’t initialize the webview on my code. but later i figured i was using kotlin as the programming language instead of using java (since syntax is different in java and kotlin) that was the issue. starting a new project with java solved the issue