Launch Maps App from PhoneGap
If you need to launch the maps application from a PhoneGap application you can do so by editing your AppDelegate.m file with the code below. If you’re not using ChildBrowser you can comment out the else condition.
Archived here for my own sake from the PhoneGap Google Group.
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)theWebView
shouldStartLoadWithRequest: (NSURLRequest *)request
navigationType: (UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
NSURL *url = [request URL];
if (![[url scheme] hasPrefix:@"http"] ||
[[url scheme] isEqualToString:@"gap"] ||
[url isFileURL] )
{
return [super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request
navigationType:navigationType];
}
else
{
ChildBrowserViewController* childBrowser = [[ChildBrowserViewController alloc]
initWithScale:FALSE];
[super.viewController presentModalViewController:childBrowser animated:YES ];
[childBrowser loadURL:[url description]];
[childBrowser release];
return NO;
}
}
