How to control the Android WebView history/back stack?

Question

I am trying to figure out a way to handle the WebView back stack similar to how the Android web browser handles it when the back button is pressed from within my own app\'s WebV

Answer 1

The correct answer is to return false on shouldOverrideUrlLoading() as described in https://stackoverflow.com/a/8644978/5022858 and https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebViewClient.html. This prevents redirects from being added to the history list.