How to go back to previous page if back button is pressed in WebView?

Question

I have an app in which I have a WebView where I display some websites. It works, clicking a link in the webpage goes to the next page in the website inside my a

Answer 1

Official Kotlin Way:

override fun onKeyDown(keyCode: Int, event: KeyEvent?): Boolean {
    // Check if the key event was the Back button and if there's history
    if (keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK && myWebView.canGoBack()) {
        myWebView.goBack()
        return true
    }
    // If it wasn't the Back key or there's no web page history, bubble up to the default
    // system behavior (probably exit the activity)
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event)
}

https://developer.android.com/guide/webapps/webview.html#NavigatingHistory

Answer 2

use this code to go back on page and when last page came then go out of activity

 @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        super.onBackPressed();
        Intent intent=new Intent(LiveImage.this,DashBoard.class);
        startActivity(intent);
    }

Answer 3

Here is the Kotlin solution:

override fun onKeyUp(keyCode: Int, event: KeyEvent?): Boolean {
    if (event?.action != ACTION_UP || event.keyCode != KEYCODE_BACK) {
        return super.onKeyUp(keyCode, event)
    }

    if (mWebView.canGoBack()) {
        mWebView.goBack()
    } else {
        finish()
    }
    return true
}

Answer 4

Full reference for next button and progress bar : put back and next button in webview

If you want to go to back page when click on phone's back button, use this:

@Override
public void onBackPressed() {
    if (webView.canGoBack()) {
        webView.goBack();
    } else {
        super.onBackPressed();
    }
} 

You can also create custom back button like this:

btnback.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {

        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            if (wv.canGoBack()) {
                wv.goBack();
            }
        }
    }); 

Answer 5

If someone wants to handle backPressed for a webView inside a fragment, then he can use below code.

1. Copy below code into your Activity class (that contains a fragment YourFragmmentName)

   @Override
   public void onBackPressed() {
   List<Fragment> fragmentList = getSupportFragmentManager().getFragments();
   
   boolean handled = false;
   for(Object f: fragmentList) {
       if(f instanceof YourFragmentName) {
           handled = ((YourFragmentName)f).onBackPressed();
           if(handled) {
               break;
           }
       }
   }
   
   if(!handled) {
       super.onBackPressed();
   }
   

   }

2. Copy this code in the fragment YourFragmentName

   public boolean onBackPressed() {
      if (webView.canGoBack()) {
          webView.goBack();
          return true;
      } else {
          return false;
      }
   }
   

Notes

• Activity should be replaced with the actual Acitivity class you are using.
• YourFragmentName should be replaced with the name of your Fragment.
• Declare webView in YourFragmentName so that it can be accessed from within the function.

Answer 6

In kotlin:

override fun onBackPressed() {
    when {
        webView.canGoBack() -> webView.goBack()
        else -> super.onBackPressed()
    }
}

webView - id of the webview component in xml, if using synthetic reference.