I found the reason why: when init the chcp plugin, the method call webView.clearHistory(), so can`t go back anymore.

You probably already saw a description in the comments, why this is done. But anyways:

When we launch the app - it points to the index.html in the assets folder. But we want it to work with the content from the external storage (where our updated code is placed). So we redirect user to that "external" index.html. But browser (WebView) tracks that in it's history. Without webView.clearHistory() when user clicks back button on the device - he will return to the index page from the assets, and we don't want that.

Same thing will happen if we downloaded new content from the server, installed it and reloaded the page. Again, we are changing the directory and the page. And if user clicks on back button - he will return to the old page.

That's why we clear history when page is initialised. But this might be an issue if you'r app is multy-page application: if for each navigation you load new page in the WebView - then plugin is re-initialised and history get cleaned.

Could we call webView.clearHistory() when HotCodePushPlugin.onEvent(UpdateInstalledEvent event) or onEvent(AssetsInstalledEvent event) fired instead of when init the plugin? @nikDemyankov

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