If you search the Internet for examples to achieve the above, you'll get a number of resources that suggest using the cordova-file-transfer plugin. However, with Ionic 3+ and its native API, you can do this directly using a mix of Angular and Ionic File API. Essentially, you need to use Angular HttpClient to download a URL as a Blob using the responseType option and then save the resultant Blob to a file on the device using the File API. Finally, open the saved file using the Ionic native FileOpener API. Here's the method in a provider that is used to download files from a website. Note that this.http is an instance of HttpClient . /** * Download a file from the given url. * * Params: * url - the URL to download the file from * Returns: * A promise which upon resolution returns a dictionary * { * fileEntry: FileEntry, * type: The content-type string for the file * } */ download(url): Promise<{ fileEntry: F...
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