Android Webview - Prevent Reload When Go Back to the App

Question

How to prevent reload on webview when your back to the app? When tapping home key and then back to the app, the webview was reloaded. I dont want this behaviour, I want users to view the previous page (w/o reload) that they accessed.

private WebView webView;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);

    webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
    webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
    webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
    webView.loadUrl( WEBSITE_URL );
}

thanks

Answer 1

Test this by adding android:launchMode="singleInstance" to your <activity> element in your androidmanifest.xml.