Ionic - Cordova InAppBrowser

The Cordova InAppBrowser plugin is used to open external links from your app inside a web browser view.

Using Browser

It is very easy to start working with this plugin. All you need to do is to open the command prompt window and install the Cordova plugin.

C:\Users\Username\Desktop\MyApp>cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser

This step allows us to start using the inAppBrowser. We can now create a button that will lead us to some external link, and add a simple function for triggering the plugin.

HTML Code

<button class = "button" ng-click = "openBrowser()">OPEN BROWSER</button>

Controller Code

.controller('MyCtrl', function($scope, $cordovaInAppBrowser) {
   var options = {
      location: 'yes',
      clearcache: 'yes',
      toolbar: 'no'
   };
   
   $scope.openBrowser = function() {
      $cordovaInAppBrowser.open('http://ngcordova.com', '_blank', options)
		
      .then(function(event) {
         // success
      })
		
      .catch(function(event) {
         // error
      });
   }
})

When the user taps the button the InAppBrowser will open the URL we provided.

Several other methods can be used with this plugin, some of which are in the following table.

Cordova $inAppBrowser Methods

Cordova InAppBrowser Events

This plugin also offers events that can be combined with $rootScope.