How to open Twitter and Facebook app with Phonegap?

Question

I am trying to have my PhoneGap application link to open a specific users profile page in the Twitter app. I know not everyone has the Twitter app installed on their device

Answer 1

The Problem is that the InAppBrowser plugin was not installed. New versions of PhoneGap/Cordova do not come with all plugins installed- instead you choose what you want your App to have access to.

In terminal cd yourApp and $ cordova plugin add org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser

After doing that, it worked perfectly.

EDIT

Just to branch out a little bit more on how I got my .js to check if twitter was installed or not.

I installed another plugin : AppAvailability for iOS and Android

Then I altered my .js to look like this:

//Twitter checker

// If Mac//

var twitterCheck = function(){

appAvailability.check('twitter://', function(availability) {
    // availability is either true or false
    if(availability) { window.open('twitter://user?screen_name=xerxesnoble', '_system', 'location=no');}
    else{window.open('https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8', '_system', 'location=no'); };
});
};

//If Android

var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var isAndroid = ua.indexOf("android") > -1; //&& ua.indexOf("mobile");

if(isAndroid) {

twitterCheck = function(){    

appAvailability.check('com.twitter.android', function(availability) {
    // availability is either true or false
    if(availability) {window.open('twitter://user?screen_name=xerxesnoble', '_system', 'location=no');}
    else{window.open('https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twitter.android', '_system', 'location=no');};
});
};
};

The documentation provided in the AppAvailability plugin was very helpful as well>

Hope that this helps someone!