How can I save & restore GeckoView's session state?

Question

I would like to keep the session active between orientation changes. Geckoview's documentation is lacking a bit in this area. It seems GeckoSession has a restoreState method that accepts a SessionState. Is there a way to create the SessionState object from the current state of the session?

Another approach I have tried was to create a Parcelable object and set this as the SessionState for restoreState but this didnt work.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 23 '22 at 02:29

You can keep track of the current state of a GeckoSession installing a ProgressDelegate and implementing onSessionStateChange, something like:

class ProgressDelegate extends GeckoSession.ProgressDelegate {
  @Override
  public void onSessionStateChange(GeckoSession session,
                                   SessionState sessionState) {
    // store sessionState somewhere
  }
}

ProgressDelegate delegate = new ProgressDelegate();
session.setProgressDelegate(delegate);

How can I save & restore GeckoView's session state?

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