WebView back history without redirects

I've just tested this on jellybean and it seems to work.

Essentially, whenever a new URL is loaded in the WebView keep a copy of the url.

On the next URL request, double check they we aren't already on this page, if they are, then go back in the webview history another step.

Essentially this is relying on the url passed into the override step being the redirected url, rather than the final redirected url.

public class MainActivity extends Activity {    private Button mRefreshButton;    private WebView mWebView;    private String mCurrentUrl;    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstance) {        super.onCreate(savedInstance);        setContentView(R.layout.main);        mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);        mRefreshButton = (Button) findViewById(R.id.refresh);        mRefreshButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {            @Override            public void onClick(View v) {                 mWebView.reload();            }        });        WebSettings webSettings = mWebView.getSettings();        webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);        mWebView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient() {            @Override            public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {                if(mCurrentUrl != null && url != null && url.equals(mCurrentUrl)) {                    mWebView.goBack();                    return true;                }                view.loadUrl(url);                mCurrentUrl = url;                return true;            }        });        mWebView.loadUrl("http://www.gap.com/");    }    @Override    public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event) {        if(event.getAction() == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {            switch(keyCode) {                case KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK:                    if(mWebView.canGoBack()){                        mWebView.goBack();                        return true;                    }                    break;            }        }        return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);    }}

I hope this answer if anyone is still looking for it.I had been hunting to fix similar issues in my project and had tried multiple approaches like using - WebView.HitTestResult- Pushing the urls into the list- onKeyDown and so on...I think most of it would work if your app consists of just webview. But my project had a combination of native and webview and handles some native schema.

Essentially found that the key is how you override the method shouldOverrideUrlLoading. Since i wanted my app to handles some of the urls and the webview to handle some of the other ones especially the back handling.I used a flag for back presses something like ..

@Overridepublic void onBackPressed() {  if (mWebView.canGoBack()) {    mClient.setIsBackPressed(true);    //mClient is an instance of the MyWebviewClient    mWebView.goBack();  } else {    super.onBackPressed();  }}public class MyWebviewClient extends WebViewClient {  private Boolean isBackPressed = false;  public void setIsBackPressed(Boolean isBackPressed) {      this.isBackPressed = isBackPressed;  }  @Override  public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {      if (isBackPressed){          return false;      }      else {          // handle the url by implementing your logic          return true;      }  }  @Override  public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) {      isBackPressed = false;      super.onPageFinished(view, url);  }}

In this way, whenever there is a redirect when you click back, then it return false and hence mocks the behaviour of the webview. At the same time, you make sure that the isBackPressed is set to false after the page finishes loading.Hope this helps !!