Questions tagged [childbrowser]

A Phonegap plugin to load external pages

ChildBrowser is one of Phonegap's most used plugins. It enables apps to load external web pages in a separate webview, without leaving the app. Available for Android, Blackberry, WindowsPhone, iOS/iPhone.

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Phonegap build - Open external page in InAppBrowser or childbrowser with no toolbar and close it?

I want to open an external page in the InAppBrowser or childbrowser, where I don't show any toolbar and where I can have a button in my externalpage that closes the browser and returns to the app from where I opened the browser. So how to close…
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PhoneGap/Android, open ChildBrowser from .shouldOverrideUrlLoading()

I'm packaging a mobile website (over the network) in PhoneGap and would like to intercept certain links and open them using the ChildBrowser plugin. Is it possible to trigger ChildBrowser from native code (I've already determined which links to…
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InAppBrowser headers / cookies

How can I send a header when opening a url in the InAppBrowser? Or is it possible to set-cookie value in the InAppBrowser from the parent browser? Which would you recommend - InAppBrowser or the childBrowser plugin ?
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Using Phonegap to load external URL in an iFrame (ChildBrowser plugin?)

I have been trying to load an external URL (HTML file on a different web server) in an iFrame, so that it is contained between my applications header and bottom tab bar. I have tried using the iFrame HTML5 element and attributes, but am seeing…
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Childbrowser plugin in Phonegap 1.7 can open only for the first time

Childbrowser plugin in Phonegap 1.7 can open only for the first time. I'm using Phonegap 1.7 and Childbrowser. Only for the first time child browser is working. After I closed the Childbrowser (pressed the done button) it's not opening again when I…
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Adding inApp browser inside a Div

Am working in HTML5 PhoneGap Application. I want embedded a website in to my Application. We can Use InApp Browser/ChildBrowser for this. But normally its loading as another window. I want to add the InApp Browser/ChildBrowser inside a Div element…
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Invalid Signature LinkedIn Oauth while getting access token

I am trying dearly to add LinkedIn OAuth to a Phonegap application that I have created to allow users to automatically post to their LinkedIn public profile. I seem to be having trouble retrieving the access token from LinkedIn REST API via the…
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InAppBrowser in phonegap 2.3.0

In my android project i am using Phonegap 2.2.0 with child browser. i went through Phonegap 2.3.0 at Phonegap documentation, i got attracted when i saw inAppBrowser so,i thought by using phonegap 2.3.0 i can avoid child browser plugin and i tried to…
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Printing PDF through Phonegap

I would like to print a PDF displayed through a Childbrowser. Is it possible? I'm thinking of using the PrintPlugin from Phonegap but the problem is that it only accepts HTML string though I can tweak the plugin a little. Still I'm a bit clueless…
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OTA plist app install from within Phonegap app for iPad

I am trying to initiate an OTA app install from within a Phonegap iPad app. I have tried this: var url = "http://www.example.com/test.plist"; window.open("itms-services://?action=download-manifest&url=" + url, "_blank"); This works in iOS 5 but NOT…
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PhoneGap + Childbrowser + Error

I am trying to use the Childbrowser plugin in my application. My code is as follows: ChildBrowser.prototype.showWebPage = function(url, options) { options = options || { showLocationBar: true, locationBarAlign: "top" }; …
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iOS PhoneGap ChildBrowser "data argument not used by format string" warnings with XCode 4.4

I've updated XCode to v4.4 and started getting warnings in the PhoneGap (Cordova 1.9.0) ChildBrowser plug-in that never showed up with v4.3. (Nothing else in my code changed.) When I saw these warnings, I pulled the latest version of the…
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Has anyone been able to install ChildBrowser on Cordova 2.0.0 successfully?

I upgraded phonegap to 2.0 (Cordova-2.0.0) a couple of days ago. I used the following instructions to add the ChildBrowser plugin to cordova: https://github.com/alunny/ChildBrowser/blob/master/README.md (used pluginstall and npm to run automated…
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PhoneGap ChildBrowser plugin with Android - Maintaining touches through view transitions

I'm having a very strange problem with the PhoneGap ChildBrowser plugin for Android (also using Kendo UI framework from Telerik). If the ChildBrowser plugin is included in the project, any touches that last for more than a second are maintained…
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PhoneGap 1.5 ChildBrowser can't show local file

I'm building a PhoneGap 1.5 (Cordova) application for iOS and want to use the ChildBrowser plugin to show PDF files. I've been able to get it set up and it works very well when I'm viewing external PDF files (http, https). The app has limited…
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