cordova-plugin-ete-inappbrowser-wkwebview

cordova-plugin-inappbrowser-wkwebview

• This is a fork of cordova-plugin-inappbrowser
• It uses the the newer WKWebview to power the InAppBrowser, in contrast to cordova-plugin-inappbrowser which still currently uses the legacy UIWebView.
• Only the iOS platform has been changed from the original cordova-plugin-inappbrowser.
• The plugin supports iOS 9 and above
  • While WKWebView was introduced in iOS 8, it contained critical bugs making it effectively unusable for Cordova-based apps

Some advantages of using WKWebView over UIWebView include:

• Performance: graphic-intensive operations such as WebGL run much faster and more efficiently in WKWebView.
• Stability: WKWebView has many improvements which leads to up to 70% less crashes.
• Shared cookies: setting a cookie in an IAB window makes it available in the main Cordova Webview and vice-versa. This is especially useful for cookies that store authentication credentials since they will be preserved between IAB sessions.

Installation

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-inappbrowser-wkwebview
cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine

• This plugin depends on cordova-plugin-wkwebview-engine which adds WKWebView support to Cordova.
• You need to add this (or a variant) manually to your project
• This means the main Cordova app Webview will also use WKWebView on iOS 9+.

Example app

cordova-plugin-inappbrowser-wkwebview-test contains a Cordova project which builds an iOS test app to validate/illustrate usage of this plugin.

Related plugin

cordova-plugin-inappbrowser-popup-bridge is an extension of this plugin which adds support for Braintree's PopupBridge libraries for Android and iOS to support PayPal payments within the context of the InappBrowser element of a Cordova-based app.

Plugin usage and API

The plugin API is identical to cordova-plugin-inappbrowser.