如何在Cordova / Ionic中打开外部应用程序？

Question

I'm working on an ionic app. In my app I want to have a button that will open another app. I tested the hyper link in safari and the link opens the app correctly, but when I click the button inside my Ionic app, it's not working. The Xcode reports

Failed to load webpage with error: The URL can't be shown

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

If you are trying to use externally hosted web application in your cordova application, check out cordova-hosted-webapp-plugin . The plugin enables using content hosted in a web site inside a Cordova application by providing a manifest that describes the site. Also it lets you use the features of Cordova plugins too.

But if you are trying to just invoke the external web URL from your cordova app, you can make use of cordova-InAppBrowser-Plugin which opens the web URL inside the app itself.

You can also check out cordova-themeable-browser-plugin which is almost similar to InApp browser plugin and provides more control on the browser elements available in the UI. Hope it helps