Access external URL(Google.com) from PhoneGap(Android)

Question

I am new to PhoneGap and Android.I am unable to access Extrenal URL\' like google from PhoneGap,i tried Iframe and Window.Location.Href but not sure why it\'s not working.

Answer 1

Have you added the external URLs to the whitelist? There is a file in /res/xml in your project called PhoneGap.xml

Here is an example of one of my PhoneGap.xml files:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<phonegap>
    <access origin="http://127.0.0.1*"/>
    <access origin="http://devgeeks.org"/>
    <access origin="http://*.phonegap.com"/>
    <log level="DEBUG"/>
</phonegap>

Answer 2

The access xml helped me. You can use the navigator.app.loadUrl function to get the url loaded in the current webview - look in the cordova.js file for details of the options

Answer 3

Opening an external link in phonegap / android is only possible two ways: Source: https://build.phonegap.com/blog/access-tags

check blogpost of phonegap. They're explaining what the android default is, and what you can do about it.

Follow the discussing on the phonegap forum: http://community.phonegap.com/nitobi/topics/make_links_use_external_broswer_consistently

Edit:

1. Add the following code to your config.xml.

    <access origin="http://www.domain.com" browserOnly="true" />
   

2. Add:

    function loadURL(url){ 
       navigator.app.loadUrl(url, { openExternal:true }); 
    } 
   

3. Add:

    <a onclick="loadURL('http://www.domain.com')" href="#">Url</a>