I created a working app using ionic. there was no problem with fetching data from my site and everything was good.
I then went to add crosswalk to it and now i get t
I figured it out! The problem is that in the latest Cordova, they've split out the whitelist functionality into its own plugin.
Simply run ionic plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-whitelist.git and you're good!
ionic plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-whitelist.git