Handling hardware back button in Ionic3 Vs Ionic4

Question

Please find the below code for the Android hardware back button action in ionic3. As Ionic4 uses angular routing for navigation how the pop event w

Answer 1

Try This: app.comonent.ts

import { Component, ViewChildren, QueryList } from '@angular/core';
import { Platform, ModalController, ActionSheetController, PopoverController, IonRouterOutlet, MenuController } from '@ionic/angular';
import { SplashScreen } from '@ionic-native/splash-screen/ngx';
import { StatusBar } from '@ionic-native/status-bar/ngx';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
import { Toast } from '@ionic-native/toast/ngx';

@Component({
    selector: 'app-root',
    templateUrl: 'app.component.html'
})
export class AppComponent {

    // set up hardware back button event.
    lastTimeBackPress = 0;
    timePeriodToExit = 2000;

    @ViewChildren(IonRouterOutlet) routerOutlets: QueryList;

    constructor(
        private platform: Platform,
        private splashScreen: SplashScreen,
        private statusBar: StatusBar,
        public modalCtrl: ModalController,
        private menu: MenuController,
        private actionSheetCtrl: ActionSheetController,
        private popoverCtrl: PopoverController,
        private router: Router,
        private toast: Toast) {

        // Initialize app
        this.initializeApp();

        // Initialize BackButton Eevent.
        this.backButtonEvent();
    }

    // active hardware back button
    backButtonEvent() {
        this.platform.backButton.subscribe(async () => {
            // close action sheet
            try {
                const element = await this.actionSheetCtrl.getTop();
                if (element) {
                    element.dismiss();
                    return;
                }
            } catch (error) {
            }

            // close popover
            try {
                const element = await this.popoverCtrl.getTop();
                if (element) {
                    element.dismiss();
                    return;
                }
            } catch (error) {
            }

            // close modal
            try {
                const element = await this.modalCtrl.getTop();
                if (element) {
                    element.dismiss();
                    return;
                }
            } catch (error) {
                console.log(error);

            }

            // close side menua
            try {
                const element = await this.menu.getOpen();
                if (element) {
                    this.menu.close();
                    return;

                }

            } catch (error) {

            }

            this.routerOutlets.forEach((outlet: IonRouterOutlet) => {
                if (outlet && outlet.canGoBack()) {
                    outlet.pop();

                } else if (this.router.url === '/home') {
                    if (new Date().getTime() - this.lastTimeBackPress < this.timePeriodToExit) {
                        // this.platform.exitApp(); // Exit from app
                        navigator['app'].exitApp(); // work in ionic 4

                    } else {
                        this.toast.show(
                            `Press back again to exit App.`,
                            '2000',
                            'center')
                            .subscribe(toast => {
                                // console.log(JSON.stringify(toast));
                            });
                        this.lastTimeBackPress = new Date().getTime();
                    }
                }
            });
        });
    }
}

it's work for me, in ionic v4 beta