How to open a web page inside an iOS app with phonegap?

Question

I want to have only one view in my iOS phonegap app.

This view will be a web page.

How can i load this only view with a specific url?

I suppose you d

Answer 1

d0nparalias,

1. If you want to load main(Cordova's) index.html from remote server, edit config.xml file and change
   
   <content src="index.html" />
   
   to
   
   <content src="http://192.168.1.4:8080/www/index.html" />
   
   for example. And it will load index.html from web server located on 192.168.1.4.

2. If you want to open a website right after loading your app, you can use InAppBrowser as you have already noticed.
   
   window.open(url, target, options);
   
   Here you have options for target (according to Cordova docs 2.5.0):

   2.1. _self and you'll get something like
   
   Note, that you don't have any controls to return to your index.html in this case.

   2.2. _blank — presents modal view controller with dismiss button
   

   2.3. _system — opens in Safari.app
   

For more information visit documentation and wiki.

Hope it helps.

BR.
Eugene

Answer 2

PhoneGap which is now called Apache Cordova on iOS will only let you use a file URL by default. This means you have to load a local .html file. If you want to open a remote page with an http:// URL, you'll need to add custom native code to tell the WebView to load a remote URL.