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    iOS PhoneGap app will not launch URL

    I am writing a mobile app for both android and ios that is relatively simple in function. It has a database table with records that contain a description field and a url field. When a record in the list control is tapped, the url is launched in a browser window. This works perfectly in the android compiled apk but the ios compiled ipa does nothing when the record is taped. Is there something in the PhoneGap settings for ios that has to be checked to allow this to function on ios. I have searched the forums here and phonegap site and have found nothing. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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    Re: iOS PhoneGap app will not launch URL

    What is your JS code for launching the URL?

    Regardless, I use the InAppBrowser plugin... solves lots of issues... and lots of options. Your code would be something like...

    Code:
    var linkURL = this.selectionData[0].WebsiteLink;
var ref = cordova.InAppBrowser.open(linkURL, '_blank', 'location=yes');
    I think you can also use the standard window.open(linkURL, '_blank', 'location=yes'); as the plugin is a replacement for that call.
    Last edited by Davidk; January 11, 2017, 08:34 PM.

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      Re: iOS PhoneGap app will not launch URL

      Sorry for the long delay. Thanks for the suggestion David. I added the plugin and code into my project but could not get the plugin to load in the project. I used a call to view loaded plugins and console.log to view them and even though InAppBrower was selected in my PhoneGap project all calls to the cordova.InAppBrowser object failed. This was happening on both ios and android whereas the prior solution worked on andriod but not on ios. The old solution was to use the Action Javascript call of Open an .a5w page, static HTML page, URL, or PDF document, in a Browser Window (for target) and _blank. Not looking for lots of control, just wanting it to work. I then built a new app with nothing but a panel and button that launched a URL using the Action Javascript and compiled with phonegap for both IOS and Andriod. I then opened on both types of phones and the button worked on both. I assumed corruption in my original project so for the last month I completely rebuild my project from scratch. I then compiled it and put on both platforms with the same results. It works to launch a new window when the button is clicked on android but I get no reaction on the ios. My biggest problem is that I cannot figure out how to find out if the ios platform is generating an error that I can look up because I do not use a Mac so I am at a loss. Any help in this would greatly be appreciated.

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        Re: iOS PhoneGap app will not launch URL

        Post a zipped, sample project here which includes a UX exhibiting the issue and the PhoneGapProject folder used for the build. I'll build it here and test and debug my Mac... see what there is to see.

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          Re: iOS PhoneGap app will not launch URL

          David, thank you for your offer. Since I last posted I have shifted focus to another minor issue that my app has when deployed on an iphone 6. This issue was that the icon used for the app was the default phonegap icon instead of the custom icon I had compiled in the project. I deployed on an iphone 5 and the custom icon was used so I looked into it. What I found was others reported simular issues when using the 6.x version of the CLI but found that the 5.x CLI did not have the issue. I was using the 6.2 or 6.3 CLI so I moved back to the 5.2 CLI. This not only fixed the icon issue but the web link call started working. I had to switch to the InAppBrowser plugin because even though I selected to use Safari on the iphone (the android uses Chrome with no issues) it would use the plain vanilla wrapper on ios which had no button to return to my app. To my suprise, the InAppBrower not only worked on ios but also worked on andriod. This killed most of my issues but it may leave me with one later down the road when I am forced to get off the 5.x CLI. For now I will take this as a big victory and move forward. As a side note, I have been able to put my hands on a Macbook Pro (older model) for testing and loaded XCode so maybe I will be able to pursue why the CLI has issues at a later date. Thanks again for your help.

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