Ionic Inappbrowser to picking up exit event

Issue

My app which is built on ionic has an inapp browser that opens a url. This works fine.
I need to identify when and if the user clicks the close/”X” button on it to run a function.

I have tried the exit eventlistener but it is not fired when the browser is closed.

I have tried the below.

var ref = window.open($scope.url, '_blank');

then

ref.addEventListener('exit', $scope.bclose());
    $scope.bclose = function(){
        alert('Close');
    }

also

ref.addEventListener('exit', function(event) { 
   alert('Browser Closed');
});

I however have a loadstop listener which works fine.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Solution

Try to use following way. It is working fine.

 $scope.openLink = function (url) {

        var ref = cordova.InAppBrowser.open(url, '_blank', 'location=yes');

        ref.addEventListener('exit', function(){
         alert('exit');
        });

    }

I am using following cordova inappbrowser version in my config.xml

<plugin name="cordova-plugin-inappbrowser" src="https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser.git" version="1.4.1-dev" />

Answered By – coder

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