WebView events does not detect the url change

Question

I want to navigate only to a youtube video and if I try to navigate to youtube home or another page inside youtube, i want to detect the url change and cancel it from loading. I have implemented the OnNavigating and OnNavigated event, a webview custom renderer to use ShouldOverrideUrl, PageStarted, PageFinished to detect the url change and nothing works. The only event that detect it is DoUpdateHistory but when it detect the url, the page is already loaded and i want to prevent loading another page.

It should be noted that when I try to navigate outside of YouTube, the events do work.

Answer 1

Hello @Alan Rojas ,​

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WebView events does not detect the url change

There are two ways to redirect web pages: Forward and Redirect. It exists a clear difference in the jump between the two ways.

Forward: The address bar of the browser URL remains unchanged.
Redirect: The address bar of the browser URL changes.

The youtube api seems to use the Forward way to redirect the url. When clicking a tab on the youtube home page, the related event will not be called. But these events are triggered when testing google web. You could test it on your side to vertify that.

Best Regards,

Jarvan Zhang

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