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Event "Navigate to Link" - "Open in New Window" doesn't seem to work on iOS as expected.
This is the code generated by Appery for the event
window.open('http://www.google.com', 'NewWindow', 'width=600,height=400,toolbar=yes,location=yes,directories=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,copyhistory=yes,resizable=yes');

When viewing the app in a browser, clicking the button launches the external URL in a popup window correctly.

When I build and deploy an IPA to my iOS 6 device, clicking the button has no effect.

Viewing the iOS device console shows the following error:
Jun 27 18:33:16 Test[2302] : ERROR: Plugin 'InAppBrowser' not found, or is not a CDVPlugin. Check your pluginmapping in config.xml.

I was successfully able to launch the external URL using ChildBrowser with the following javascript bound to the button click event:

var cb = window.plugins.childBrowser;
if(cb != null) {
cb.showWebPage("http://www.google.com");
}

However I would prefer to use InAppBrowser rather than legacy ChildBrowser.

Hello! Could you try with vclick event instead of click?

I found that the problem isn't between a vclick and a click, but that there is a problem with the PhoneGap export for iOS. "window.open" is not supported properly on iOS export. The work around is to use the chldBrowser.

Although I would like to open a link in Safari on the iOS device from within the app. Is there anyway to do this using Appery?

Hi Steve,

Appery.io app includes Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) library. You can use any of the JavaScript API provided by PhoneGap. Unfortunately, we do not have the needed plug-in default. You would need to add it manually by exporting your app to IDE.

You should remember Appery.io app can't be imported back after making changes.

Read more here: http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.4.0/cor...