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

private class ArticleWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
        return false;
    }
}

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK)
    {
        WebView wv = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.web);
        if (wv.canGoBack())
        {
            wv.goBack();
            return true;
        }
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

This shouldOverrideUrlLoading method should return false if you want to handle the link in your webview rather than system browser, and do not call view.loadUrl(url), your webview will load url automatically if you return false. The history will be not correct if you load url manually.