Handle Android Back Button on Phonegap InAppBrowser

Question

I would like to disable or override the Android Back button while I am navigating pages on the InAppBrowser. Can I add an event listener that can handle that?

Answer 1

I know this question has an answer already but I post my answer for those who any of these answers didn't work for them(such as myself):

so I have a multi page app for android and IOS and I am using cordova 5.x and I added the code below in every page except the page I needed InAppBrowser:

delete window.open;

and then for the rest of the pages I used:

document.addEventListener("backbutton", onBackKeyDown, false);
function onBackKeyDown(event) {
// your code for handling back button comes here
}

for handling back button

note that: delete window.open; base on the documentation

manually restore the default behaviour of 'window.open'

after that InAppBrowser plugin worked great and I handled back button in all pages correctly.

one last thing don't forget to add: in pages you need to have InAppBrowser.

hope this help.