Browser Tab

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This plugin provides an interface to in-app browser tabs that exist on some mobile platforms, specifically Custom Tabs on Android (including the Chrome Custom Tabs implementation), and SFSafariViewController on iOS.

Repo: https://github.com/google/cordova-plugin-browsertab

Installation

Install the Cordova and Ionic Native plugins:

$ ionic cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-browsertab
$ npm install --save @ionic-native/browser-tab@4

Add this plugin to your app's module

Supported platforms

Android
iOS

Usage

import { BrowserTab } from '@ionic-native/browser-tab';

constructor(private browserTab: BrowserTab) {

  browserTab.isAvailable()
    .then(isAvailable => {
      if (isAvailable) {
        browserTab.openUrl('https://ionic.io');
      } else {
        // open URL with InAppBrowser instead or SafariViewController
      }
    });
}

Instance Members

`isAvailable()`

Check if BrowserTab option is available

Returns: Promise<any> Returns a promise that resolves when check is successful and returns true or false

`openUrl(url)`

Opens the provided URL using a browser tab

Param	Type	Details
url	`string`	The URL you want to open

Returns: Promise<any> Returns a promise that resolves when check open was successful

`close()`

Closes browser tab

Returns: Promise<any> Returns a promise that resolves when close was finished