InAppBrowser plugin's inconsistent behavior in windows phone 8

[Sam_Deepak]

Hi,

I am using InAppBrowser plugin to call remote JSON API in terms of providing additional layer of protection for  consuming it. It works fine in android.

In windows phone 8.x, I am facing a strange issue. When executing functions that reside in scripts from the page loaded in InAppBrowser, it sometimes gives me an error saying "Unspecified error." in plugins/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/src/windows/InAppBrowserProxy.js.

The strange thing is that it randomly throws this error sometimes and sometimes it works. I tried all techniques I could think of and read from internet. Could someone please help me resolve this issue.

[PaulF_IntelCorp]

Sam, this is another one I would search StackOverflow for help, we don't yet have enough experience with the new Cordova Windows platforms to know all the quirks.

[Sam_Deepak]

Hi Paul,

Same here, I searched everywhere, I could not a find a solution or workaround for this. Please let me know if you come across anything.

[Sam_Deepak]

Hi Paul,

It seems that this error occurs when you execute scripts many times, i.e., I call a remote Json API using this InAppBrowser and while calling second API sometimes this error occurs.

So what I did is, I closed the InAppBrowser every time, I am done with an API call and created a new instance of InAppBrowser for every API call. It works. I could not understand how this works in Android regardless of how many times it calls multiple  calls using same InAppBrowser instance.

[PaulF_IntelCorp]

This is probably due to a difference in the memory management implementations between the two platforms. An Android webview is not representative of a Windows webview or an iOS webview, they are quite different "under the hood" -- just like browsers from different vendors have different behavior.