handling back button in android from jquery

Question

We have developed an application in jQuery integrated with android (which has only one activity). From this activity we are loading an HTML file, on this file we are showing and

Answer 1

Use this code in your HTML page to handle back button pressed

document.addEventListener("backbutton", onBackKeyDown, false);

function onBackKeyDown() {
// Handle the back button
}

Answer 2

Try this:

function onDeviceReady() {
    // Add this line to the on onDeviceReady() function
    document.addEventListener("backbutton", onBackKeyDown, false);
}

// Handle back button hardware
function onBackKeyDown(e) {
    e.preventDefault(); // the default action of the event e should not be triggered. 
    history.back(1); // load the previous window.location
}