InAppBrowser events not firing on Android (Cordova 3.1.0)

[tom....@zestia.com]

I'm in the process of updating our 3.0.0 projects to 3.1.0, I've updated the InAppBrowser plugin and the "loadXYZ" events are firing and working correctly on iOS, however they're not being fired on Android, even though the InAppBrowser is opening the requested page successfully.

Has anyone encountered this issue with the latest InAppBrowser plugin?

[Jake Riesterer]

I've also noticed the same issue in our project. Haven't been able to figure out what change broke it quite yet.

[rjrj...@gmail.com]

I am having the same problem with Android (not tested on iOS -- don't have it yet).  I didn't do an upgrade.  I started clean with Cordova 3.1.0.  The InAppBrowser page is opening, but no events are firing.  I am using the example from:
http://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/3.1.0/cordova_inappbrowser_inappbrowser.md.html#addEventListener

Can someone please help?

Thanks.

On Wednesday, October 9, 2013 10:36:06 AM UTC-5, tom....@zestia.com wrote:

[Patrick Stinnett]

I'm having the same issue. Just posting to get notified incase someone else finds the issue. 

[Matt Null]

Also having the same problem. Page loads in the app itself (not a new browser) and doesn't fire any events

[Tom Wilson]

Was anyone able to fix this issue?  I'm also experiencing this issue.

Here is an entry I am getting from logcat. 

11-11 17:19:04.389: W/CordovaPlugin(14458): Attempted to send a second callback for ID: InAppBrowser1052814497

11-11 17:19:04.389: W/CordovaPlugin(14458): Result was: {"type":"loadstart","url":"https:\/\/xxxxxx.com"}

[tom....@zestia.com]

Well, I'm still having this issue.

Created a new project to try out the inappbrowser plugin, works fine. However there aren't are differences in the actual Android source between the two projects.

This is getting annoying when each Cordova upgrade breaks my app.

[Tom Wilson]

I ended up reverting my android project code via version control and backed out my changes.  I then put back in the same javascript/html code so it must have been something with the phonegap settings.  I looked through the android source code for the inappbrowser and it looked like it was using different callback functions for sending back return results to javascript. Does this need to be updated?

Has anyone used the childbrowser plugin?

https://github.com/phonegap-build/ChildBrowser/tree/9b580d92e8d74f316c5adbda2ece2f7641a5b4a2

Does this have better android support?

I'm using InAppBrowser to handle SSO login so there are alot of redirects, ect.  Not sure if this could be causing the issue.

Thanks for your help!

Tom

[Shawn Talbert]

I've having the same issues and trying to do reliable openauth login with google.

Alternately, Is there some SSO plugin for phonegap/cordova that works?

Tom, did you ever get this resolved? I'm not clear with your statement below - does your callback now get called? If so, which combination of android version and phonegap version is working with InAppBrowser?

[Tom Wilson]

From this blog post it looks like callbacks are broken when you target kitkat.

http://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2013/11/15/kitkat.html

Upgrading to 3.1 fixed my issue.

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[Alex Lopez]

I have just installed cordova 3.1.0-0.2.0 and InAppBrowser seems not to be working, all my links with _blank and _system open in the same window, happening on Android Kitkat and iOS7, any ideass or links to the solution?

[David Urbansky]

Hi, I have the same issue, using cordova 3.2.0, no events are firing, sometimes the first "loadstart" event fires but not the ones after that and I use it for SSO as well so I need the redirects.

If anybody has figured this out, I would appreciate a line here.

Thanks,

         David

[Faisal Siddiqi]

I face the same issue on iOS.  window.open with _blank overlays the main window with no "Done" button or other controls visible

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Faisal

[Jake Monton]

I got the same issue on PhoneGap 3.3. Anyone who knows how to fix this?

Thanks

[Billy Shea]

same here, cordova 3.3 target android KitKat, no event fires, no done button, no toolbar, need help!

[Anthony Trimble]

Does anyone know of a fix? 

Sames issue still persists in 3.3

[Thomas Strmiska]

also tested in phonegap 3.3 ios - xcode 5; no inAppBrowser is starting.

does anyone know of this issue?

thanx

[Rob Whiteside]

For any people still having problems.  I was hitting a problem where the InAppBrowser was showing up, but no events were firing.  It turned out my function signature was incorrect.  Looking at the phonegap 3.3 docs for InAppBrowser, there are several inconsistencies, which caused my problem.  Anyway, verify that you are adding your event listeners properly.  See below:

ref.addEventListener('loadstart', function(event) { alert('start: ' + event.url); });
ref.addEventListener('loadstop', function(event) { alert('stop: ' + event.url); });
ref.addEventListener('loaderror', function(event) { alert('error: ' + event.message); });
ref.addEventListener('exit', function(event) { alert(event.type); });

Notice that the method signature contains one variable: event.  If you leave that off (as many of the examples in the official docs do) your listeners won't get called.

Hope that helps someone out there!

--Rob

[Red2678]

Any ideas?

The loadstart and loadstop events do not fire in iOS 7.1.

Thanks!

[Joaquin Rocco]

After two days, I actually got it working:

- install latest cordova (3.4)

- create new project from cli

- add the plugin: cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser.git

- create the platform

Now you have the default project, I just put the call for the browser in the index.js (onDeviceReady)

var ref = window.open('http://www.google.com', '_blank');

ref.addEventListener('loadstart', function(event) { alert(event.type + ' - ' + event.url); } );

The latest version of the InAppBrowser failed on previous versions of cordova, as well as previos versions of the plugin in older cordovas.

A clean install got it to work.

Still, i haven't tested it yet on ios7.

Hope it helps, cheers!

[tome...@gmail.com]

hi.
i am also tryed tons of times to use, and those event just dont fire!
does anybody have any working solotion for this?
i need to use the events for google login in my app..
thanks

[nukturnal]

Events Firing Finally.

After several days I just got it to work. Apparently the events dont fire when location is set to no.

This wont fire events

var ref = window.open('https://google.com','_blank','location=no');

This works (notice location is set to yes)
var ref = window.open('https://google.com','_blank','location=yes');

Lets know if this works for you guys (I am using Cordova 3.4.0)

Cheers!

[Remco Mokveld]

Does not seem to work for me.

As a matter of fact while using cordova 3.4.1-0.1.0 in combination with inappbrowser 0.4.0 i have the strangest thing happening. If i add a loadstop and execute the following script it will not fire the load stop event until i turn off my screen and turn it back on. Any idea how that could happen?

var ref = window.open( 'http://apache.org', "_blank", "location=yes" );

  ref.addEventListener( 'loadstop', function () {

    ref.close();

  })

[julija....@privatbank.ua]

There are 2 different ways to open URL in android and iphone.

FOR IOS use following code.

window.open("http://google.com", '_system');

and for android OS use following code.

navigator.app.loadUrl("http://google.com", {openExternal : true});

I found answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17887348/phonegap-open-link-in-browser

среда, 9 октября 2013 г., 18:36:06 UTC+3 пользователь tom....@zestia.com написал:

[hit...@appsnranks.com]

Hey Tom,

How are you??

Can you please let me know the code to add DONE button in inappbrowser for phonegap iphone application ???

I eagerly waiting for your reply..

[Steve Husting]

The docs tell you how:
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.5.0/cordova_plugins_pluginapis.md.html#Plugin%20APIs

[Michael Read]

Found a solution, I was having the same problem this was the first thing to pop up in google

make sure that InAppBrowser is installed!

Read "Accessing the Feature" in phonegap's documentation for InAppBrowser

Accessing the Feature

As of version 3.0, Cordova implements device-level APIs as plugins. Use the CLI's plugin command, described in The Command-line Interface, to add or remove this feature for a project:

    $ cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser.git
    $ cordova plugin rm org.apache.cordova.core.inappbrowser