Ability to override the back button behavior

[christianliebel]

I received a feature request where the developer wants to have more fine-granular control over the behavior of the device's back button when the app is installed. Cordova has a backbutton event that allows developers to override the default behavior (i.e., navigating back): https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/4.0.0/cordova/events/events.backbutton.html

Perhaps this would be worth exploring.

[kenchris]

This ties into the Navigation API, please check: https://wicg.github.io/navigation-api/#sp-navigation-monitoring-interception

[kenchris]

WICG/navigation-api#32

[kenchris]

WICG/navigation-api#32 (comment) https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3868615

[christianliebel]

@kenchris Ah, very cool! Didn't know about that. Thank you.

[dmurph]

I'm going to close this as it seems like this was solved through navigation API. Feel free to re-open if not