Safari View Controller

For displaying read-only web content.

Requires Cordova plugin: cordova-plugin-safariviewcontroller. For more info, please see the Safari View Controller plugin docs.

https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/cordova-plugin-safariviewcontroller

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Installation #

Capacitor
Cordova
Enterprise

$ npm install cordova-plugin-safariviewcontroller 
$ npm install @ionic-native/safari-view-controller 
$ ionic cap sync

Supported Platforms#

Android
iOS

Usage#

React#

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Angular#

import { SafariViewController } from '@ionic-native/safari-view-controller/ngx';

constructor(private safariViewController: SafariViewController) { }

...

this.safariViewController.isAvailable()
  .then((available: boolean) => {
      if (available) {

        this.safariViewController.show({
          url: 'http://ionic.io',
          hidden: false,
          animated: false,
          transition: 'curl',
          enterReaderModeIfAvailable: true,
          tintColor: '#ff0000'
        })
        .subscribe((result: any) => {
            if(result.event === 'opened') console.log('Opened');
            else if(result.event === 'loaded') console.log('Loaded');
            else if(result.event === 'closed') console.log('Closed');
          },
          (error: any) => console.error(error)
        );

      } else {
        // use fallback browser, example InAppBrowser
      }
    }
  );