I have a web page that is often launched from inside an Android/iOS app in their respective "tab system", Chrome Custom Tabs / SFSafariViewController.
The requirement I have is to have some urls redirect and open in the full browser app instead of navigating in the tab/controller.
I tried adding to one of those URLs the href target="_blank" or use window.open()` but in Android at least that opens a custom tab inside of the existing tab. Haven't had the chance to test that on iOS as of yet but I have the sneaking suspicion it will do nothing as the Safari View Controller does not support windows.
Any ideas on how I can force these 2 tools to open a url in the full apps would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
For people who might come across this and are interested.
Unfortunately it is not possible to force the in app browser to open a new tab in the full version of it. Like I mention in the question, iOS simply can't do that due to the nature of the SFSafariViewController, while in Android it does not work... for reasons I guess, could not find something concrete and I will not go into speculating the reasons.
The solution I ended up using on my side is: Have the site send a deep link to the app with the URL that it should open externally, the app forces the in app browser to close and launches the received URL in the full browser.
I am setting this as the answer for now. If anyone comes with a better solution or an immediate solution to the problem, I am more than happy to change it.
Cheers