PhoneGap: Opening external URL's in Safari

Question

I\'ve just upgraded to PhoneGap 1.6.1 and I can no longer get external URL\'s to open in Safari.

Prior to this version I had patched AppDelegate.m as follows:

<

Answer 1

I have used this in the MainViewController.m

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
    NSURL *url = [request URL];
    NSString *str = url.absoluteString;
    NSRange range = [str rangeOfString:@"http://"];
    //HACK to make url open in safari
    if (range.location != NSNotFound) {
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
        return NO;
    }
    else {
        return [ super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType ];
    }
}