[CB-4086] Add option for "Cancelable" to InAppBrowser on Android

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0
• Component/s: cordova-plugin-inappbrowser

Environment

Android

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Neale Genereux
• Created: 05/Jul/13 20:37
• Updated: 25/Jun/20 15:26
• Resolved: 25/Jun/20 15:26

Description

Currently, the InAppBrowser plugin, when instructed to create a browser with the '_blank' option, will always call dialog.setCancelable(true); on the child browser view. This allows the user to dismiss the in-app browser with the hardware back button.

There are cases where the host application does not want the user to be able to dismiss the child browser without explicit action being performed within it. In these cases, it would be great to have an option available when invoking the browser from JS to set this value to false. This could either be a separate option, or it could use the same value as "location". Since removing the location bar removes the user's ability to manually dismiss this view on all other platforms, it is reasonable to assume it should remove the hardware back button functionality as well.