How to clear webview history?

Question

The history of webview is not clearing... What is wrong with below code?

Web view Creation

mWebViewReport=(WebView)findViewById(R.id.report_page);
mWebViewReport.setWebViewClient(new HelloWebViewClient());
mWebViewReport.getSettings().setBuiltInZoomControls(true);

Load help file when help button click

mWebViewReport.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/help.html");
mWebViewReport.clearHistory();
mWebViewReport.clearCache(true);

load Summary file when summary button click

  mWebViewReport.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/summary.html");

    //On back button click
     if (mWebViewReport.canGoBack()) {
            mWebViewReport.goBack();
            return ;
      }

Here i can see the Help page too...

Answer 1

You can't clear history while the webview is loading a page (url) in order to clear the history setup onPageFinished listener as follows

declare a public var before the onCreate

boolean clearHistory = false;

now when you declare your mWebViewReport set this up

mWebViewReport.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient(){

    @Override
    public void onPageFinished(WebView view, String url) 
    {
        if (clearHistory)
        {
            clearHistory = false;        
            mWebViewReport.clearHistory();
        }
            super.onPageFinished(view, url);
    }
});

Now when you call your help url insted of clearing the history just set clearHistory to true

mWebViewReport.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/help.html");
mWebViewReport.clearHistory();  // REMOVE THIS LINE
mWebViewReport.clearCache(true); // REMOVE THIS LINE
clearHistory = true; // ADD THIS LINE