InAppBrowser for React Native

Getting started

$ npm install react-native-inappbrowser-reborn --save

Mostly automatic installation

$ react-native link react-native-inappbrowser-reborn

Manual installation

iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-inappbrowser-reborn and add RNInAppBrowser.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libRNInAppBrowser.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

iOS with Podfile

1. Open up ios/Podfile

• Add pod 'RNInAppBrowser', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-inappbrowser-reborn'

2. Run pod install

Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainActivity.java

• Add import com.proyecto26.inappbrowser.RNInAppBrowserPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new RNInAppBrowserPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

2. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-inappbrowser-reborn'
   project(':react-native-inappbrowser-reborn').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-inappbrowser-reborn/android')
   

3. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     implementation project(':react-native-inappbrowser-reborn')
   

Usage

Methods	Action
open	Opens the url with Safari in a modal on iOS using SFSafariViewController, and Chrome in a new custom tab on Android. On iOS, the modal Safari will not share cookies with the system Safari.
close	Dismisses the system's presented web browser
openAuth	Opens the url with Safari in a modal on iOS using SFAuthenticationSession, and Chrome in a new custom tab on Android. On iOS, the user will be asked whether to allow the app to authenticate using the given url.
closeAuth	Dismisses the current authentication session
isAvailable	Detect if the device supports this plugin

Demo

import InAppBrowser from 'react-native-inappbrowser-reborn';

...
  async openLink() {
    try {
      await InAppBrowser.isAvailable()
      InAppBrowser.open('https://www.google.com', {
        // iOS Properties
        dismissButtonStyle: 'cancel',
        preferredBarTintColor: 'gray',
        preferredControlTintColor: 'white',
        readerMode: false,
        // Android Properties
        showTitle: true,
        toolbarColor: '#6200EE',
        secondaryToolbarColor: 'black',
        enableUrlBarHiding: true,
        enableDefaultShare: true,
        forceCloseOnRedirection: false,
        // Specify full animation resource identifier(package:anim/name)
        // or only resource name(in case of animation bundled with app).
        animations: {
          startEnter: 'slide_in_right',
          startExit: 'slide_out_left',
          endEnter: 'slide_in_right',
          endExit: 'slide_out_left',
        },
        headers: {
          'my-custom-header': 'my custom header value'
        },
      }).then((result) => {
        Alert.alert(JSON.stringify(result))
      })
    } catch (error) {
      Alert.alert(error.message)
    }
  }
...

Authentication Flow using Deep Linking

• utilities.js

import { Platform } from 'react-native'
export const getDeepLink = (path = "") => {
  const scheme = 'my-scheme'
  const prefix = Platform.OS == 'android' ? `${scheme}://my-host/` : `${scheme}://`
  return prefix + path
}

• App.js (Using react-navigation with Deep Linking)

import { Root } from 'native-base'
import { getDeepLink } from './utilities'
import { createStackNavigator } from 'react-navigation'

const Main = createStackNavigator(
  {
    LoginComponent: { screen: LoginComponent },
    HomeComponent: { screen: HomeComponent },
    SplashComponent: { //Redirect users to the Home page if they are authenticated, otherwise to Login page...
      screen: SplashComponent,
      path: 'callback/' //Deep linking to get the auth_token
    }
  },
  {
    index: 0,
    initialRouteName: 'SplashComponent',
    headerMode: 'none'
  }
)
...
  render() {
    return (
      <Root>
        <Main uriPrefix={getDeepLink()} />
      </Root>
    )
  }
...

• LoginComponent

import { Linking } from 'react-native'
import InAppBrowser from 'react-native-inappbrowser-reborn'
import { getDeepLink } from './utilities'
...
  async onLogin() {
    const deepLink = getDeepLink("callback")
    const url = `https://my-auth-login-page.com?redirect_uri=${deepLink}`
    try {
      await InAppBrowser.isAvailable()
      InAppBrowser.openAuth(url, deepLink, {
        // iOS Properties
        dismissButtonStyle: 'cancel',
        // Android Properties
        showTitle: false,
        enableUrlBarHiding: true,
        enableDefaultShare: true,
      }).then((response) => {
        if (response.type === 'success' &&
          response.url) {
          Linking.openURL(response.url)
        }
      })
    } catch (error) {
      Linking.openURL(url)
    }
  }
...

• SplashComponent

...
  componentWillMount() {
    const { navigation } = this.props
    const { state: { params } } = navigation
    const { access_token } = params || {}

    if (access_token) {
      // Opened by deep linking, the user is authenticated
      // Redirect to the Home page
    }
    else {
      // Detect if the stored token is still valid
      // And redirect the user to Home or Login page
    }
  }
...

StatusBar

The StatusBar will keep the last one provided in your app. So if the StatusBar is dark-content before you open the browser this will keep it. If you want to change before opening you can do something like

  async openInBrowser(url) {
    try {
      StatusBar.setBarStyle('dark-content')
      await InAppBrowser.open(url)
    } catch (error) {
      Alert.alert(error.message);
    }
  })

If you need to restore the old bar style, after the browser is dismissed, you can try and patch the StatusBar.setBarStyle function to store the old value like so:

// patch StatusBar.setBarStyle to make style accessible
const _setBarStyle = StatusBar.setBarStyle;
StatusBar.setBarStyle = (style) => {
	StatusBar.currentStyle = style;
	_setBarStyle(style);
};

You can than restore the old bar style after the browser has been dismissed like this:

  async openInBrowser(url) {
    try {
      const oldStyle = StatusBar.currentStyle
      StatusBar.setBarStyle('dark-content')
      await InAppBrowser.open(url)
      if(oldStyle) StatusBar.setBarStyle(oldStyle)
    } catch (error) {
      Alert.alert(error.message);
    }
  })

Credits 👍

• Expo: WebBrowser
• React Native Custom Tabs: Chrome Custom Tabs for React Native
• React Native Safari View: A React Native wrapper for Safari View Controller

Collaborators 🥇

Juan Nicholls	Emanuel Quimper	Jonathan Bones	Mihai Lazari	Kalle Haavisto	Worapot Pengsuk	Adam McArthur

Supporting 🍻

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