Maui webview .Navigated event is not triggered

[softourS]

Description

I think the title explains it all. When using a WebView on Maui and adding the Navigated event, this event is not triggered when is reached. Specifically, it occurs when using WebViewHandlers, or at least it used to work when we used a simple WebView, and after we learned about Handlers instead of Renderers and changed the code accordingly, it stopped working.

We used this sample for an example of Custom WebViewHandler (both iOS and Android):
https://github.com/nmoschkin/MAUIWebViewExample.git

It's on the latest version, .net MAUI 8.0 (VS for Mac doesn't tell us more, thank you VS).

Steps to Reproduce

The sample code should suffice but just in case:

1.- Create MAUI app (VS for Mac)
2.- Create both a HybridWebView (inherits from WebView, the example of handlers had View, but that way the WebView did not recognize the .Navigated event as belonging to WebView) and 2 WebViewHandlers (Android & iOS).
3.- On the MainPage, create a variable for the HybridWebView:
private static HybridWebView browser = new();
4.- Add a source (browser = new HybridWebView { Source = url };) on the public MainPage
5.- Add the .Navigated event, like this:
browser.Navigated += async (sender, e) => {
//Write something here
};
6.- Set a breakpoint inside the event
7.- Nothing happens

Link to public reproduction project repository

https://github.com/softourS/regulares-netmaui-app-public.git

Version with bug

Unknown/Other

Is this a regression from previous behavior?

Not sure, did not test other versions

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

iOS, Android

Affected platform versions

Android min version 21 to target 34; iOS min version 14 to target 17.2

Did you find any workaround?

Everywhere we search they'd say it's solved, but the issue is usually forgotten or ignored, so no.

Relevant log output

No response

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[softourS]

Can we get a human here?

[kaysho]

Experiencing this also, it gets fired when I use out of the box WebView, but doesn't when using custom WebViews with WebViewHandler.

[yanhao1115]

@softourS @kaysho
I’m encountering the same issue. Is there a solution available?

[softourS]

@yanhao1115 As far as I am concerned they just don't care

[hehao-ntt]

I’m encountering the same issue. Is there a solution available?

[NcaDev1]

Facing the same issue, a fix would be highly appreciated

[HomeroLara]

Any updates on this issue? I'm seeing the same behavior on Android and iOS for both Navigating & Navigated events.

[vikher]

Any news on this? I'm having the same problem with the Navigating and Navigated events on both Android and iOS.

[raapeer]

I have the same problem and need to resolve this.

[cris-her]

I am recently facing the same issue, any update on this?

[NcaDev1]

We found the issue in our code: We are using a custom NavigationDelegate delegate, that wasn't overriding DidFinishNavigation. We now override this method and call DidFinishNavigation on the NavigationDelegate created by MAUI.

We are now getting the Navigated event on Android and iOS (MAUI Version 8.0.61).

[HomeroLara]

@NcaDev1 thanks for the info! Question: Your work around appears to only be for iOS, is this correct? Also, were you having this problem on Android as well? If so, can you share any details on what you did to address this?

Thanks!

[NikaRadosinska]

I had this problem too. My handler is only overriding functions "ConnectHandler" and "CreatePlatformView". I solved it like this:

    protected override WKWebView CreatePlatformView()
    {
        var view = new WKWebView(new CoreGraphics.CGRect(), new WKWebViewConfiguration());
        view.NavigationDelegate = new MauiWebViewNavigationDelegate(this);
        return view;
    }

Before i returned unmodified WKWebView.

[AidanOrton]

Any update on this issue? I'm facing it too on 9.0.10

[blmiles]

ANY resolution to this?
Seeing this in iOS, Android and Windows... pretty sure this is an issue introduced handling events in WebView control.

This never triggers and no code-change, was triggering before upgrading and targeting .Net 9.0

            _webView.Navigated += (sender, e) =>
            {
                if (e.Url.StartsWith(options.EndUrl))
                {
                    if (tcs.Task.Status != TaskStatus.RanToCompletion)
                    {
                        tcs.SetResult(new BrowserResult
                        {
                            ResultType = BrowserResultType.Success,
                            Response = e.Url.ToString()
                        });
                    }
                }
            };

            _webView.Source = new UrlWebViewSource{ Url = options.StartUrl };