Angular ng-view/routing not working in PhoneGap
I'm having a problem with ngView in PhoneGap.
Everything seems to be loading just fine and I can even get a basic controller working using ng-controller. But when I try to use routing with ngView, nothing happens.
index.html
<!doctype html>
<html ng-app>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/cordova-2.4.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/angular-1.0.4.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/app.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#/test">Test</a>
<div ng-view></div>
</body>
</html>
app.js
angular.module('App', []).config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.when('/test', {
controller: TestCtrl,
template: '<h1> {{ test }} </h1>'
});
});
function TestCtrl($scope) {
$scope.test = "Works!";
}
The Eclipse logger shows onMessage(onPageFinished, fle:///android_asset/www/index.html#/test) every time I click the link, and trying it without the # just raises an error that the path can't be found.
From what I've ready everywhere else, this should be working. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Answer
After searching through several questions and forums, I've finally got it working reliably. This is what it took me to get it running from a clean PhoneGap project.
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html ng-app="App">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
<meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width, height=device-height, target-densitydpi=device-dpi" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/index.css" />
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#/">Main View</a>
<a href="#/view">New View</a>
<div ng-view></div>
<!-- Libs -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/cordova-2.5.0.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="lib/angular-1.0.5.js"></script>
<!-- App -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/index.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/routers.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/controllers.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
app.initialize();
</script>
</body>
</html>
Note the <html ng-app="App"> tag. The app won't load without a value for the directive, so make sure you include one.
index.js
var app = {
initialize: function() {
this.bindEvents();
},
bindEvents: function() {
document.addEventListener('deviceready', this.onDeviceReady, true);
},
onDeviceReady: function() {
angular.element(document).ready(function() {
angular.bootstrap(document);
});
},
};
In this file, we're manually bootstrapping Angular when PhoneGap fires the 'ondeviceready' event.
routers.js
angular.module('App', [])
.config(function ($compileProvider){
$compileProvider.urlSanitizationWhitelist(/^\s*(https?|ftp|mailto|file|tel):/);
})
.config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/', {
controller: TestCtrl,
templateUrl: 'partials/main.html'
})
.when('/view', {
controller: ViewCtrl,
templateUrl: 'partials/view.html'
});
});
This file has two important things in it. First, we're creating the module with the same name we used before in <html np-app="App">. Second, we need to configure the router to whitelist
file URIs. I personally didn't need this, but several people seem to have encountered the issue, so I included it.
controllers.js
function TestCtrl($scope) {
$scope.status = "It works!";
}
function ViewCtrl($scope) {
$scope.status = "Also totally works!";
}
Finally, just some basic controllers.
I've created a github repo with all of this here.
Hope this helps someone else.