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

Tested on cordova 2.4 + iOS

use "_system" and no need to update any configuration

http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.3.0/cordova_inappbrowser_inappbrowser.md.html#InAppBrowser

target: the target to load the URL in (String) (Optional, Default: "_self")

_self - opens in the Cordova WebView if url is in the white-list, else it opens in the InAppBrowser _blank - always open in the InAppBrowser _system - always open in the system web browser

Answer 2

This works for me it helps alot

-(void)viewDidLoad
{
   [super viewDidLoad];
    ////////////////////////
    NSString *urlAddress = @"http://www.playbuzz.org/";
    //NSURL *myURL = [NSURL URLWithString:urlAddress];
    myWebview.delegate = (id)self;
   [myWebview loadRequest:[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL     URLWithString:urlAddress]]];
}


- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning
{
    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {


    //  open External Links (not beginning with www.playbuzz.org/ in Safari.app
    if (
        (navigationType == UIWebViewNavigationTypeLinkClicked) &&
        ( ![[[request URL] absoluteString] hasPrefix:@"http://www.playbuzz.org/"])
        ) {

        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:request.URL];
        return NO;
    }

   //open Internal links in uiwebview
   return YES;
}`

Answer 3

if you want to open an external url in safari, I think this is useful:
This is the %100 guaranteed solution if you are using phonegap - Tested in ios6.
to open external url in safari do following:

1-add your link in External Host (white list). e.g http://google.com
2-in Cordova.plist or Phonegap.plist, change "OpenAllWhitelistURLsInWebView" from "Yes" to "No"
3-in your application add (target="_blank") to your link
example

    <a href="http://google.com" target="_blank">Google.com</a>

Thank you.

Answer 4

You can (as of phonegap 1.5.0) use :

<a href="some://external/url" target="_blank">Click Me</a>

This should cause phonegap to launch the native browser.

I think what user868766 was referring to was that for the above to work you need the external url to be on the whitelist. The app I have been working on opened the source of news stories in the native browser so we used * in the whitelist to ensure we didnt rule out any sources.

Hope that helps.