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external link cordova not working


working on a small app using codova im tryign to open link on browser, but this is not working I don;t know why, it only opens in webview.

 <a href='#' onclick='openURL("http://google.com")'/>LInka</a> 
 <a href='#' onclick='window.open("http://google.com", '_system')'/>LInka</a>

    function openURL(urlString){
        myURL = encodeURI(urlString);
        window.open(myURL, '_blank');
    }

Solution

  • I was having the same problem, are including you the cordova.js on your page

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <!--
        Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
        or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
        distributed with this work for additional information
        regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
        to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
        "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
        with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
    
        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
    
        Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
        software distributed under the License is distributed on an
        "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
         KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
        specific language governing permissions and limitations
        under the License.
    -->
    <html>
        <head>
            <meta charset="utf-8" />
            <meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
            <!-- WARNING: for iOS 7, remove the width=device-width and height=device-height attributes. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-4323 -->
            <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width, height=device-height, target-densitydpi=device-dpi" /> 
            <title>Hello World</title>
        </head>
        <body>
    
    <a onclick="navigator.app.loadUrl('yourwebsite.com', { openExternal:true });">Links</a>
         <script type="text/javascript" src="cordova.js"></script>   
    <script type="text/javascript">
    function openURL(urlString){
        myURL = encodeURI(urlString);
        window.open(myURL, '_blank');
    }
    </script>
    

    try creating a new project and make sure index.html looks like this don't need to include inappbrowser Good luck hope it helps