How to implement inAppBrowser Back Button in Ionic? - angularjs

I have an Ionic App where from side menu click it will go to page A and from there on certain action it will go to Page B and I need back button on all the pages which will navigate it back to mobile app.
I tried this code
$scope.goOut= function () {
//$scope.showLoading($ionicLoading);
var url = "https://www.google.com";
var target = '_blank';
var options = ['location=no','hardwareback=yes','toolbarposition=top', 'toolbar=yes','enableViewportScale=yes',
'transitionstyle=fliphorizontal',
'closebuttoncaption=Back to the App'];
var ref = cordova.InAppBrowser.open(url, target, options.join());
ref.addEventListener("loadstop",function () {
$scope.hide($ionicLoading);
});
};
But this is not showing me anything on the inappbrowser.
I must be doing something horribly wrong? and its not even showing loading?

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http://127.0.0.1:8000/#!/crud
I want to achieve like if i change anything in one tab, the other tab of the same url should get an alert or automatically refresh the page to be the same as other tab.
how can i archive this?
here you go for my controller of GET method:
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var data = $http.get("http://127.0.0.1:8000/api/v1/contact")
.then(function(response) {
$scope.contacts = response.data;
}, function(response) {
});
};
$scope.getAllContact();
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How to add a custom error page in Cordova InAppBrowser or hide the error url?

pleas check this attached image I'm building an Ionic Android app with the InAppBrowser plugin. When the internet connection is not available, the plugin shows web page not available and requesting url.
Please help me customise the InAppBrowser error page (404 page). Or help me hide the requesting url.
Thank you.
I think I misunderstood your problem, first time, sorry about that. I'm reading again your problem and I'm figuring out what's happening. You need to add a custom configuration at config.xml to redirect to an error page when Cordova detect it. I hope this solve your problem.
<preference name="ErrorUrl" value="myErrorPage.html"/>
The original response works when you want to open a link through Cordova inAppBrowser plugin. If this doesn't sort out your problem, please reformulate your question.
Original response
You could be listening inAppBrowser events to figure what's happening.
Here, you can see how listen browser events, such as loaderror and manage the 404 error as you want. You must save a reference to inAppBrowser when open method is called, and then you could listen for error event.
function loadErrorCallBack(params) {
// Do stuff
}
inAppBrowserRef = cordova.InAppBrowser.open(url, target, options);
inAppBrowserRef.addEventListener('loaderror', loadErrorCallBack);
I am using Ionic 4 and I couldn’t manage to make the solution based on config.xml editing to work :
preference name="ErrorUrl" value="myErrorPage.html"/
Placing an addEventListener on loaderror didn’t work neither. It looks like it is not triggered by http errors and the plugin need a fix.
But we found a hack that is much simpler.
On loadstop we wait 500 milliseconds and then we get the loaded url by triggering executeScript with and window.location.href
If the loaded url is of the custom error page, in Cordova (not in IAB) we display a custom message with a back button.
It's a hack but that cover the requirement for now
I just came across the same problem and here's what I did. The code is for Android and works on IOS as well. But you would want to remove navigator.app.exitApp(); for IOS as Apple does not allow apps to take exit without pressing the home button.
Let me know if this works for you. It will hide default error page and open your custom error page. Write your own error code in myerrorpage.html
document.getElementById("openBrowser").addEventListener("click", openBrowser);
document.addEventListener("offline", onOffline, false);
function onOffline(e) {
e.preventDefault();
var src = 'myErrorPage.html';
var target = '_blank';
var option = "loaction=no, toolbar=no, zoom=no, hidden=yes, hardwareback=no";
var ref = cordova.InAppBrowser.open(src, target, option);
alert('Your device is Offline. Please check your connection and try again.');
navigator.app.exitApp();
}
function openBrowser() {
var url = 'https://www.yourlink.com';
var target = '_self';
var options = "location=no,toolbar=no,zoom=no, hardwareback=no, hidden=yes" ;
var ref = cordova.InAppBrowser.open(url, target, options);
}
When the components do not work, I perform the following procedure
ionic state reset
ionic platform remove android
ionic platform remove ios
ionic platform add android
ionic platform add ios
and try with ionicPlatform ready
<button class="button button-balanced" ng-click="OpenBrowser()">Test</button>
In controller
$scope.OpenBrowser = undefined;
$ionicPlatform.ready(function () {
$scope.OpenBrowser = function () {
$cordovaInAppBrowser.open('http://ngcordova.com', '_blank', options)
.then(function (event) {
})
.catch(function (event) {
$scope.Error = event;
});
};
});
I couldn't manage solution with setting ErrorUrl in Ionic 4 on Android to work.
Finally I came up with another solution - hide default error page and redirect user to any page (I use last page from event.url).
constructor(private iab: InAppBrowser) {
}
private openUrl(url: string)
{
this.platform.ready().then(() => {
if (this.platform.is('cordova')) {
this.openBrowser(url);
}
});
}
private openBrowser(url: string): InAppBrowserObject
{
const options: InAppBrowserOptions = {
location: 'no',
zoom: 'no',
hidden: 'no'
};
const browser = this.iab.create(url, '_blank', options);
browser.on('loaderror').subscribe(
event => this.onLoadError(event, browser)
);
return browser;
}
private onLoadError(event: InAppBrowserEvent, browser: InAppBrowserObject): void
{
browser.executeScript({
code: `
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function () {
document.querySelector('body').style.background = 'black';
document.querySelector('body').innerHTML = '';
}, true);
window.addEventListener('load', function () {
window.location.replace('${event.url}');
}, true);
`,
}
).then();
}
Changing background and redirecting is tricky - from my experiments using injectCss won't work, because body is generated in the meantime. Using DOMContentLoader makes it black and clears text on screen.
But redirecting won't work in DOMContentLoader (don't ask me why), so you need to use load event.
It works great when user is using hardware back and returns to POST request - this way he will be redirected to GET of the same url (but you can use any url you want).

$scope is updated, but the view is not

I have 2 states. A home state and a child of the home state called, suggestions. The home state loads a template into a ui-view element.
Inside my home template, and my suggestions template I have this link,
.addmovie{"ng-click" => "addMovie(movie)"}
This link fires the .addMovie function. This places a new value in my database and after that's done reloads all the data with this,
var init = function(){
movieService.loadMovies().then(function(response) {
$scope.movies = response.data;
var orderBy = $filter('orderBy');
$scope.orderedMovies = orderBy($scope.movies, "release_date", false);
var movies = $scope.orderedMovies
var i,j,temparray,chunk = 8, movieGroups=[];
for (i=0,j=movies.length; i<j; i+=chunk) {
temparray = movies.slice(i,i+chunk);
movieGroups.push(temparray);
}
$scope.movieGroups = movieGroups
})
$(".search_results").fadeOut(250);
$('body').find('#search_input').val("");
movieTrailers.loadTrailers().then(function(response) {
$scope.trailers = response.data;
})
movieSuggestions.loadSuggestions().then(function(response) {
$scope.suggestions = response.data;
})
console.log ('init end')
}
So if I add a movie from within my home template, the view updates with the new data.
In this home template I also have a button that loads the suggestions state,
#suggestions
%a{"ui-sref" => ".suggestions"}
%h1
Suggestions
%div{"ui-view" => "suggestions"}
This loads the suggestions template inside the suggestions view inside the home state.
In my suggestions template I have the same button as in the home state.
.addmovie{"ng-click" => "addMovie(movie)"}
And when I click that it does do the addMovie function because I get the console logs in my console, and also it reloads all the data (with use of the init function) because when I check the network tab and view the movies.json it has the new data. But it does not update my home template view. To see the new data in my home template I have to refresh the page.

Backbonejs - Back button doesn't work if page transition on same page

Short description of my program and finally the problem:
I have got two pages. The first page list products in rows with a short description. If you click on one you will land on a detail page.
The detail page lists the product details and underneath a couple of related products. If you click on one of the releated products the same page is rendered again with the new information fetched from a REST interface.
If I want to use the browser-back-button or the own back-button to get to the previous product-detail-page a blank page appears. This only happens on my iPad. Using Chrome on a desktop browser works fine. I debugged the application and I figured out, that the backbonejs route is never called. I have no idea why.
Here is my code of the details page:
define([
"jquery",
"lib/backbone",
"lib/text!/de/productDetails.html"
],
function(
$,
Backbone,
ContentTemplate
){
var PageView = Backbone.View.extend({
// product details template
template: _.template(ContentTemplate),
// back-button clicked
events:{
'click a#ac-back-button':'backInHistory',
},
// init
initialize: function(options){
this.options=options;
// bind functions
_.bindAll(this,
'render',
'renderRelatedSeriePlainproduct',
'backInHistory'
);
// listen for collection
this.listenTo(this.options.relatedCollectionPlainproduct, 'reset',this.renderRelatedSeriePlainproduct);
},
// back button
backInHistory: function(e){
e.preventDefault();
window.history.back();
},
// render template
render: function(){
// render template
this.$el.html(this.template(this.model.models[0].attributes));
return this;
},
// render related products
renderRelatedSeriePlainproduct: function (){
var models = this.options.relatedCollectionPlainproduct.models;
if(models.length==0){
$('.ac-plainproduct').hide();
} else{
var elem = $('#ac-related-listing-plainproduct');
var ct="";
ct+='<ul id="ac-list-related-plainproduct">';
$.each(models, function(key, value){
ct+='<li>';
ct+='<a href="index.html?article_id='+value.get('article_id')+'&type='+value.get('type')+'&serie='+value.get('series')+'#product-detail">Link';
ct+='</a>';
ct+='</li>';
});
ct+='</ul>';
elem.append(ct);
}
}
});
// Returns the View class
return PageView;
});
I follow one of the links from renderRelatedSeriePlainproduct.If I click on the back button on the new page the backInHistory function is called, but the window.history.back(); does not call the backbone router.
Maybe the problem is the #hash in the URL, that is not changed during page transition. But this would not explain, why it works perfectly with my Chrome on my desktop machine. For me it seemed to be a problem of asynchronous calls but even there I could not find a problem.
Maybe it helps to list my router code as well. First of all I was thinking it is an zombie issue in backbone, but I remove all events and views while making the transition.
// function called by the route
// details page
productdetail: function() {
$.mobile.loading("show");
_self = this;
// lazy loading
require([
'collection/ProductDetailCollection',
'collection/RelatedCollection',
'view/ProductDetailView'
],
function(ProductDetailCollection, RelatedCollection, ProductDetailView){
// get URL parameters
var articleID = _self.URLParameter('article_id');
var type = _self.URLParameter('type');
var serie = _self.URLParameter('serie');
// product - details
var productDetail = new ProductDetailCollection.ProductDetail({id: articleID});
// related products
_self.relatedCollectionPlainproduct = new RelatedCollection({serie:serie, type:"Electronics", article_id:articleID});
// assign binded context
productDetail.fetch({
// data fetched
success: function (data) {
// page transition
_self.changePage(new ProductDetailView({
model:data,
relatedCollectionPlainproduct:_self.relatedCollectionPlainproduct
}));
// fetch data
_self.relatedCollectionPlainproduct.fetch({reset:true});
}
});
});
},
// page transition
changePage:function (page) {
// remove previous page from DOM
this.page && this.page.remove() && this.page.unbind();
// assign
this.page = page;
// assign page tag to DOM
$(page.el).attr('data-role', 'page');
// render template
page.render();
// append template to dom
$('body').append($(page.el));
// set transition
var transition = "fade";
// we want to slide the first page different
if (this.firstPage) {
transition = "fade";
this.firstPage = false;
}
// make transition by jquery mobile
$.mobile.changePage($(page.el), {changeHash:true, transition: transition});
// page was rendered - trigger event
page.trigger('render');
$.mobile.loading("hide");
},
I tried to use allowSamePageTransition but with no success. Maybe someone could give me a hint. Thanks!
Looks like jQuery Mobile and Backbone's routers are conflicting. Take a look here:
http://coenraets.org/blog/2012/03/using-backbone-js-with-jquery-mobile/
Thats not the reason. I disabled the routing of jquery mobile.
// Prevents all anchor click handling
$.mobile.linkBindingEnabled = false;
// Disabling this will prevent jQuery Mobile from handling hash changes
$.mobile.hashListeningEnabled = false;

still the navigate triggers and upate my url, the method is not calling

In my backbone app, i use the requirejs to load the js files. as well i need different views, there is no.of links are there in my drop down menu. according to the drop down menu i a adding the #url example:
http://localhost:85/bino/html/interface-I.html#projectName/project11
the navigate method works fine and updating the url, also whenever i copy and paste this url to any other browser / refresh with current hash state my router methods works fine.
But click on link in the drop down menu not working, the method not calling... what would be the reason and how can i fix this..?
my code: main js file (part of code)
var extender = _.extend({},backBone.Events);
var params ={
boardHolder :$('.boardHolder'),
column :3,
space :30,
extender :extender
};
var listApp = new routerer(params);
backBone.history.start();
extender.bind("list:selected",function(post){
listApp.navigate(post.category+'/'+post.filter);
});
my router code :
define(["backBone","singleton","listCollection","listView","listViews"],function(Backbone,singleton,listCollection,listView,listViews){
singleton.router = Backbone.Router.extend({
routes:{
"" :"appView",
"post" :"postView",
"projectName/:id" :"projectNameView",
"assignedTo/:id" :"assignedToView",
"sortBy/:id" :"sortByView"
},
initialize:function(params){
this.params = params;
this.collection = new listCollection;
console.log('i am called');
},
hashView:function(){
console.log('from hash view');
},
appView:function(){
var that = this;
// var defaultApp = new listCollection();
this.collection.fetch({
success:function(data){
new listViews({model:data,params:that.params})
}
})
},
projectNameView:function(thisView){ // not calling not sync
console.log('called',thisView); // on click not works
},
assignedToView:function(thisView){ // not calling not sync
console.log(thisView); // on click not works
},
sortByView:function(thisView){ // not calling not sync
console.log(thisView); // on click not works
}
});
return singleton.router;
})
thanks in advance.
navigate only updates the url, you also have to call the route function by setting the trigger option to true. If you'd like to update the URL without creating an entry in the browser's history, also set the replace option to true.
listApp.navigate(post.category+'/'+post.filter);
would become
listApp.navigate(post.category+'/'+post.filter, {trigger: true});

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