Is local storage for a Phonegap app on an Android device separate from the built in browser?

Question

My question is essentially a follow up or clarification to this question.

I have an Android app built using Javascript and Adobe\'s Phonegap Build service, and I\'m

Answer 1

Yes it is separate but there are time where you need to pass a variable of some kind to the In App Browser. It makes coding so much more easier to pass a ls item from a current webview to another one like in iOS.

Here is what I did in PhoneGap

I use the InAppBrowser executeScript() to pass a copy of the current webviews localStorage to another.

//add the listener to detect when the page loads after inappbrowser is called into view
ref.addEventListener('loadstop', function(){
     ref.executeScript({code: 'SetInAppBrowserLocalStorage(\''+localStorage+'\');'});
});

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//In your inAppBrowser page you create a function that  will get called on loadStop
//This will pass "all" the contents of the main webviws localStorage to the webview 
//created by InAppBrowser
function SetInAppBrowserLocalStorage(localStorageThatWasPassed){
    localStorage = localStorageThatWasPassed;
};

You could also clear the localStorage created by SetInAppBrowserLocalStorage() before the use leaves that view as well.

Tested and working 100% :)...let me know if you need more help

***UPDATE*****

This still works ...but not consistently anymore. After much testing I realize this is simply not the way to go. Sometimes the data simply is not passed fast enough when the inappbrowser instance is created. I talked to the cordova guys via there issue tracker and they told me it wasn't a secure way of doing things...I get that...but my response to them was what if I just want to pass ls variables between pages in my app..those are not even accessible from the internet... I honestly don't understand why the ls items can't be accessible globally in the app like it is in iOS and the rest of the web. If anyone has a better solution I would love to hear about it.