1 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt b/app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt
index 6eb5b71..de9416b 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt
+++ b/app/src/main/java/org/terst/feedreader/ui/BrowserScreen.kt
@@ -50,21 +50,32 @@ fun BrowserScreen(startUrl: String, onBack: () -> Unit) {
     var title by remember(startUrl) { mutableStateOf<String?>(null) }
     var webViewRef by remember(startUrl) { mutableStateOf<WebView?>(null) }
 
-    // Deliberately NOT "goBack() if the WebView has history, else exit" -- that means
-    // however many pages deep a search/login session went (search results -> article ->
-    // another link -> ...), leaving requires tapping back that many times first. Reported
-    // live as not making sense for this kind of multi-page browsing. Back always just
-    // closes the screen now, both the system gesture and the in-app arrow; there's no
-    // separate in-page-back affordance, matching how every other screen in this app behaves.
-    BackHandler(onBack = onBack)
+    // Real browser-style back: step back through THIS WebView's own page history first
+    // (search results -> article -> another link -> ...) and only close the screen once
+    // there's nowhere left to go back to. An earlier version made back always close the
+    // screen outright, on the theory that stepping through a deep session one page at a
+    // time was tedious -- but that meant a single back press (system gesture or the in-app
+    // arrow) could silently throw away an entire multi-page browsing/login session, which
+    // is worse: there's no way to recover it, and it doesn't match how every other browser
+    // (or in-app browser view) on the platform behaves. Both the system back gesture and
+    // the in-app arrow go through the same path below, so they behave identically.
+    fun handleBack() {
+        val webView = webViewRef
+        if (webView != null && webView.canGoBack()) {
+            webView.goBack()
+        } else {
+            onBack()
+        }
+    }
+    BackHandler(onBack = ::handleBack)
 
     Scaffold(
         topBar = {
             TopAppBar(
                 title = { Text(title ?: "Browser", maxLines = 1, overflow = TextOverflow.Ellipsis) },
                 navigationIcon = {
-                    IconButton(onClick = onBack) {
-                        Icon(Icons.Default.ArrowBack, contentDescription = "Close browser")
+                    IconButton(onClick = ::handleBack) {
+                        Icon(Icons.Default.ArrowBack, contentDescription = "Back")
                     }
                 },
                 actions = {