How can I open an external link in Safari not the app's UIWebView?

Question

I have a Phonegap (cordova) application where I want to load some external webpages within the phonegap WebView and I have other external webpages that I want to load in saf

Answer 1

The right way of doing this is using the inAppBrowser plugin

install it using the cordova CLI:

cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser

Then, to open a link on safari just use:

window.open('http://apache.org', '_system');

There is a newer version of the plugin hosted on npm

to install it from the cordova CLI:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-inappbrowser

To open the website on safari you can use

cordova.InAppBrowser.open('http://apache.org', '_system');

or, if you want to continue using window.open like the older version you can just do this on device ready event:

document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false);
function onDeviceReady() {
    window.open = cordova.InAppBrowser.open;
}