Note: This is not an official Google product.

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.

To open a URL in an in-app browser tab on a compatible platform:

cordova.plugins.browsertab.openUrl('https://www.google.com');

This plugin is designed to complement cordova-plugin-inappbrowser. No fallback is triggered automatically, you need to test whether it will succeed, and then perform your own fallback logic like opening the link in the system browser instead using cordova-plugin-inappbrowser.

cordova.InAppBrowser.open('https://www.google.com/', '_system');

Complete example with fallback handling:

var testURL = 'https://www.google.com';

document.querySelector("#tabwithfallback").addEventListener('click', function(ev) {
cordova.plugins.browsertab.isAvailable(function(result) {
    if (!result) {
      cordova.InAppBrowser.open(testURL, '_system');
    } else {
      cordova.plugins.browsertab.openUrl(
          testURL,
          function(successResp) {},
          function(failureResp) {
            error.textContent = "failed to launch browser tab";
            error.style.display = '';
          });
    }
  },
  function(isAvailableError) {
    error.textContent = "failed to query availability of in-app browser tab";
    error.style.display = '';
  });
});

Plugin can be customized by providing parameters during installation. You can customize i.e. custom tab background color by passing CUSTOM_TAB_COLOR_RGB variable in string RGB format:

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-browsertab --variable CUSTOM_TAB_COLOR_RGB="#ff0000"

List of available parameters:

• CUSTOM_TAB_COLOR_RGB - Customize custom tab background color. Pass value as a RGB string #RRGGBB. Supported by Android only at the moment.

Install Cordova if you haven't already:

npm install -g cordova

Then from the root directory:

cd demo
cordova platform add ios
cordova run ios
cordova platform add android
cordova run android

During development if you want to make changes to the plugin you need to force a rebuild and add the plugin from source, like so (from the demo directory):

cordova plugin remove cordova-plugin-browsertab
cordova plugin add ../plugin

To refresh the platform build:

cordova platform remove ios
cordova platform add ios

To set breakpoints, etc, open the project in the code editor:

cordova platform add ios
open platforms/ios/BrowserTabDemo.xcworkspace