How to create DoubleBackPress to exit from App

When we create an app, it's must to handle Back actions to our app.

And if we create a WebView in our App, then it's must to create a proper handling actions relation to WebView back history.

For that, we use a runnable thread to handle timing to create a double back press to exit our app.

The double back press is used when we don't want to use a dialog box to confirm exit from our app.

To implement double back press in your app then create 3 variable in your activity.

 public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {  
   private java.util.Timer Timers = new Timer();  
   private double backpress = 0;  
   private TimerTask Timer;  
   

Then add a runnable thread at last in your activity.oncreate

 backpress = 1;  
     Timer = new TimerTask() {  
       @Override  
       public void run() {  
         runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {  
           @Override  
           public void run() {  
             backpress = 1;  
             Timer.cancel();  
           }  
         });  
       }  
     };  
     Timers.schedule(Timer,(int)(3000));  
     backpress=1;  
   
     tooltext.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {  
       @Override  
       public boolean onEditorAction(TextView textView, int i, KeyEvent keyEvent) {  
         ValidateUrl(tooltext.getText().toString());  
   
         return true;  
       }  
     });  

in your OnBackPressed method, use this runnable code to execute.
We use 3000ms (3sec) wait time to exit.

 @Override  
   public void onBackPressed() {  
     if(mywebview.canGoBack())  
     {  
       mywebview.goBack();  
     }  
     else  
     {  
       if(backpress == 1)  
       {  
         Toast.makeText(this, "Press Again to Exit", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();  
         Timer = new TimerTask() {  
           @Override  
           public void run() {  
             runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {  
               @Override  
               public void run() {  
                 backpress = 2;  
               }  
             });  
           }  
         };  
         Timers.schedule(Timer,(int)(0));  
       }  
       Timer = new TimerTask() {  
         @Override  
         public void run() {  
           runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {  
             @Override  
             public void run() {  
               backpress = 1;  
             }  
           });  
         }  
       };  
       Timers.schedule(Timer,(int)(3000));  
       if(backpress==2)  
       {  
         finish();  
       }  
     }  

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