react-native-webview: Inconsistent onNavigationStateChange behaviour between iOS and Android for SPAs

This fix is still needed

We’ve actually patched our usage of web view for this problem:

@@ -930,6 +940,17 @@ public class RNCWebViewManager extends SimpleViewManager<WebView> {
       }
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void doUpdateVisitedHistory(WebView webView, String url, boolean isReload) {
+      super.doUpdateVisitedHistory(webView, url, isReload);
+
+      if (!mLastLoadFailed) {
+        RNCWebView reactWebView = (RNCWebView) webView;
+
+        emitFinishEvent(webView, url);
+      }
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void onPageStarted(WebView webView, String url, Bitmap favicon) {
       super.onPageStarted(webView, url, favicon);

Just wanted to reiterate what krzysztofnowak said. This fix is still needed. I updated to 12.1.0 and I’m still having the same issues with this.

Edit: I realized I was incorrect and posted below as an update.

If you’re going with patching node_modules then I strongly recommend using patch-package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package

That way the patched version becomes part of your module install process and you will be alerted on upgrade if the patch can’t be applied cleanly.

I believe there’s a Kotlin rewrite going on, hopefully it’ll include something like the above patch, but if not, I’m not really expecting anyone to consider a PR until after that’s done and shipped.

You can also inject JavaScript that shims the History API like they do on iOS, but entirely from the JS side, then track whether you can go back in the onMessage handler. That’s what I’m doing while waiting for some response on whether a PR (like the patch above) would be accepted.

I’m facing same issues, any fixes?

Latest version 13.8.6 causes weird infinite reloading page in my case, so this issue is not fixed

i am having the same issue on android, some of the redirections on SPA are not at all intercepted. and some times detected but randomly