I need my app to reload its custom URL home page whenever the app is focused or brought to the front (an instance of it may already be running in the background, so it's not a matter of restarting the app). It is not a matter of NOT caching the custom URL; I need to force a reload of the page when the app is brought to the front. So, how to do that? Thanks!

I'm not sure 'exactly' how to do that, but it sounds like you'll need to edit the code for that kind of enablement. And that would need to happen on each platform you're creating for. Although, I suppose you could 'cheat' and put a Refresh HTML Tag in the document, and let it refresh itself every so often... If you want every 15 seconds... <meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="15;url=http://www.thispage.com"> Cheers! -- Smug

Should probably specify which platform your talking about. That or just use @Smug's answer. -tM http://thecodemonsters.com/

Both platforms, iOS and Android. The meta refresh option probably would refresh at odd times, not just at refocus on app. But I'll keep digging... Thanks!

What if you use the native app plugin. It should open a new page in the browser every time when starting that page. It isn't inside your app, but at least you you might get your startpoint right.

I need the custom url page to reload in the app, not a native browser. My current thoughts are to just supply a "refresh" button in the app to reload the page at the user's request.

Ok, think I figured this out for iOS, at least. In yourprogramapp_appDelegate.m, around line 706 you'll see function: applicationWillEnterForeground //applicationWillEnterForeground... -(void)applicationWillEnterForeground:(UIApplication *)application{ [BT_debugger showIt:self:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"applicationWillEnterForeground%@", @""]]; //set ui as visible... [self setUiIsVisible:TRUE]; } Modify it like this: //applicationWillEnterForeground... -(void)applicationWillEnterForeground:(UIApplication *)application{ [BT_debugger showIt:self:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"applicationWillEnterForeground%@", @""]]; //set ui as visible... [self setUiIsVisible:TRUE]; //load the applications data [self loadAppData]; } This seems to force a reload of the app data when the app becomes "active" after being in the background, and in my situation that forces a reload of the custom URL, which is EXACTLY what I needed.

Nice find! Is reloading the entire app going to work for you? Or is the custom URL the 'main' app? Cheers! -- Smug

@Smug, correct, the custom URL is the main page of the app. And that is the reason I want to reload when the app comes to the foreground. Otherwise I probably would not have to do this.