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A Phonegap plugin to load external pages

ChildBrowser is one of Phonegap's most used plugins. It enables apps to load external web pages in a separate webview, without leaving the app. Available for Android, Blackberry, WindowsPhone, iOS/iPhone.

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Android Phonegap ChildBrowser - hiding ChildBrowser

I was wondering if there was any way to hide the ChildBrowser instead of closing it. I would like the webview in the ChildBrowser to persist instead of having to re-start it every time. Any suggestions on how to do this? I tried using dialog.hide()…
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ChildBrowser Android plugin for PhoneGap - browser doesn't close until page is fully loaded

I'm using the latest version of ChildBrowser with PhoneGap 1.8.1 (Android). If I launch a browser window and then touch the "x" to close the window BEFORE the page is fully loaded (in this case espn.com) the window does not close and instead becomes…
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How to enable Javascript to control Phonegap Childbrowser?

I use the Phonegap Childbrowser for oAuth 2.0 authentication. After the authentication, I want to use Javascript in the web page to hide the Childbrowser without pressing the "done" button. How to do that? For example, after authentication, we…
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Phonegap + ChildBrowser + PHP CAS library on external site

I'm making a Phonegap app for Android. The app should use CAS authentication. At the moment I have a page which is at this address: "www.mysite.com" and that page automatically redirects to the CAS server authentication page. When I login to that…
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Don't work plugins ChildBrowser with Phonegap 1.9.0

Don't work plugins ChildBrowser (https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugins/tree/master/Android/ChildBrowser) with Phonegap 1.9.0 (using android version). There are some errors in ChildBrowser.java. javascript write that window.plugins is…
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Is it possible to replace the childbrowser url with a database variable?

Is it possible to replace the url in the childbrowser with a database variable? The database variable is a url in the database. For example, in the code below res[i].showlink is a database variable that is a url. The child browser works perfectly if…
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PhoneGap/Cordova: childBrowser plugin giving strange URL (iOS)

I am having a great deal of difficulty getting the childBrowser plugin to work Currently when I click my link it does nothing on my iOS simulator and when I click it using a browser I get a Web Page Not Found error with the web address looking…
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Phonegap Android: how to close base app on ChildBrowser exit callback

I have created a Phonegap Android app which shows a welcome page then opens a ChildBrowser window. I want my app to close when the user clicks the "exit" button of the ChildBrowser. I am binding the onClose event to a function, but it gives a call…
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Open local pdf with Cordova in iOS

I've tried to open local PDFs stored in the Resources/Documents folder in my XCode project. The code I put in .js file is: Cordova.exec("ChildBrowserCommand.showWebPage", "file://"+pdf ); Where pdf is the name of the file, which changes for every…
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Phonegap / Cordova ChildBrowser won't run Twitter web intents (SSL?)

I'm trying to integrate Twitter sharing functionality into my Android PhoneGap application, and rather than re-implement the controls to shorten URLs and track tweet length, I thought I'd use their premade web intents at…
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Phonegap Childbrowser onLocationChanged (iOS)

I need the URL of the current childBrowser window.. I've tried with function doThis(){ var location; var cb = window.plugins.ChildBrowser; cb.onLocationChange = function(loc){ location = loc; } alert(location); } in my body
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Adding CookieManager to android Childbrowser

I am trying to get local cookies (file://) to work on android 3.1+ within ChildBrowser. I found a blog response talking about this specific issue and how to remedy it with Cookie Manager. I can't figure out where in the plugin to put the code. Has…
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Using PhoneGap Plugin: Child Browser

I'm trying to use a Phonegap plugin and am having trouble. This is my first time using a plugin with Phonegap. The plugin I'm using is ChildBrowser for Android. I have linked the Javascript files in the headers.