Open link in native browser from InAppBrowser - ios

Question

I'm building an app that uses the InAppBrowser quite a lot. At some point, the user is able to click an external link from within this window. I tried diffrent methods, but none seems to get a good working result.
The best solution so far is listening to the loadstart event (As described here):
app.browser.addEventListener('loadstart', function (inAppBrowser) {
if(inAppBrowser.url.match(/domain\.com/) === null) {
var url = inAppBrowser.url;
window.open(url, "_system");
}
}
This opens the link in a new window, but also in the original InAppBrowser. Is it possible to cancel this event? Or is there a other approach i can try?
I already tried the following approaches:
Cross window communication.
Inserting a history.back(-1) via the executeScript method.
Call the window.open(url, '_system'); from within the InAppBrowser.
This is for iOS specific.
EDIT:
I ended up by adding this code in platforms/ios/APPNAME/Plugins/org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser/CDVInAppBrowser.m:
NSString *domainStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"domain.com"];
NSString *urlStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"%#", request.URL];
NSRange result = [urlStr rangeOfString:domainStr];
if(result.location == NSNotFound) {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:urlStr]];
return NO;
}
above this code:
return [self.navigationDelegate webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType];

Answer 1

You have some options:
hide the external links injecting css to inappbrowser, if they don't appear, then they can't be clicked
add a loadstop listener and then hide the links
app.browser.addEventListener('loadstop', hideLinks);
function hideLinks(){
app.browser.insertCSS({
code: "a { display: none; }"
}, function() {
console.log("Styles Altered");
});
}
modify/subclass inappbrowser, changing the shouldStartLoadWithRequest method
change the return [self.navigationDelegate webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType]; to return NO if the URL isn't yours