Thanks for the reply Parashuram. I hadn't looked at ManifoldJS but now that I have I don't think that's the route I want to take, for my use case a least. The plugin was quite helpful. This was what I was looking for on the iOS side:
https://github.com/manifoldjs/ManifoldCordova/blob/master/src/ios/CDVHostedWebApp.m#L93 I was hoping I could avoid wrapping the webview delegate but it appears there isn't another way to get at these events (according to this plugin). It's a bit of a hack but I think it's one I could live. Thanks for the help. Brad On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 3:59 PM Parashuram N <panar...@microsoft.com> wrote: > Hey Brad, > > This sounds pretty cool. Have you also looked at projects like ManifoldJS > - http://manifoldjs.com/? They also do almost the same thing. They also > have a Cordova plugin that displays an error page when you go offline. Note > that Manifold is not a plugin, but a tool built on top of Cordova. > > Here is a link to the plugin that does the online-offline scenario - > https://github.com/manifoldjs/ManifoldCordova. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Reynolds [mailto:bradleyja...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 11:29 AM > To: dev@cordova.apache.org > Subject: Remote site plugin > > We built a Cordova app that wraps a remote site. The only HTML page > bundled in our app redirects to our remote site on load. I was new to > Cordova at the time and was looking for the fastest way possible to get the > app out the door. To do so I modified the generated iOS and Android > projects with the hooks I felt I needed in order to inject Cordova > components and plugins into the remote site. It seems to be working for us > and has been accepted by both app stores. > > I'd like to package up the modifications for this as a plugin as we plan > to build other apps in the same manner. I've been familiarizing myself > with the plugin architecture and am not sure if what I need is exposed on > both platforms and thus this email to the dev list. I'm looking for > guidance on how to implement the hooks I've listed below as a plugin. The > end goal is to inject the Cordova components and plugins and allow the user > to retry loading the site upon error. Below are details of the changes I > made. I'm going to keep digging on my own but any direction would be > greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Brad Reynolds > > ## iOS > > iOS was pretty simple to get up and running. The generated > MainViewController had page life cycle methods that I was able to easily > hook into and inject Cordova. > > ### MainViewController.m Changes: > > 1. Implemented `webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)theWebView` to inject > Cordova components. > > To allow the user to retry reloading the current page upon failure: > > 1. Implemented `webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView > didFailLoadWithError:(NSError *)error`. > > ## Android > > Android was more difficult or at least I had to look for something other > than page events. The end result was I used Android's > `@JavascriptInterface` mechanism to make a JS object available that would > inject Cordova into the current page. As a result all loaded pages needed > to look for this object and invoke an initialization function on it. > > 1. Subclassed SystemWebViewEngine and added config.xml entry to use our > engine. > 2. Subclassed SystemWebView and returned from our engine. > 3. Within our SystemWebView subclass added a JavascriptInterface providing > a hook back into Android. When invoked this told the Adroid code it was > time to inject Cordova. > > To allow the user to retry reloading the current page: > > 1. Implemented MainActivity.onReceivedError(...). >
