I have been building an android app using Ionic. At this point, I am under the impression that Cordova applications do not save or send the cookies that are served from a RE
You can't use cookies, you should use localStorage
Browsers provide a convenient module for storing data in a simple key <-> value fashion called localStorage. This is an object on window that we can get and set String values easily
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No, you can't. I have also tried to use cookies in one of my applications, but it didn't work because the cookies are disabled in the new version of Android. I solved this problem by using the HTML5 localStorage API.