issue(InAppBrowser) Invalid event target

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Ok, here’s the code I used for implementing the plain cordova plugin. I only changed home.ts. The rest is the same as in my original post. I commented the stuff I changed.

home.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController } from 'ionic-angular';
import { InAppBrowser } from '@ionic-native/in-app-browser';
import { Platform } from 'ionic-angular';

// Declaring cordova so we can use it for the plugin
declare var cordova: any;

@Component({
  selector: 'page-home',
  templateUrl: 'home.html'
})
export class HomePage {

  constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, private iab: InAppBrowser, private platform: Platform) {
    platform.ready().then(() => {
      // If we run this in the browser without this if statement we get an error
      if (typeof cordova !== 'undefined') {
        // Open the InAppBrowser Cordova plugin
        const browser = cordova.InAppBrowser.open('https://ionic.io');
        // Add the event listener to the InAppBrowser instance
        browser.addEventListener('loadstart', function(){
          console.log('loadstart!');
        });
      }
    });
  }
}

Exactly. So I went for an online searching spree (for days) and the code in my original post is the version I came across the most in threads and examples. I tried all variants I found though, and all of them produced the same Invalid event target error. There being no example in the docs is the whole reason I’m here I guess. I’m posting these threads as a last resort, to find someone who can tell me how to write this or tell me I found a bug.

Thank you very much for your help so far Jan, you’re awesome. So, what’s next?