Interactions between iOS browser app developed in Swift and the embedded html code

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Created Jul ’15

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Dear users,

I'm developing a iOS app with a internal browser for a embedded HTML page; I'm using swift. I have only two questions about the interactions between this two elements.

1) How can I communicate or share data between my iOS browser and the HTML page (precisely, the javascript code in this page)?

2) If the user open a new web page from another page from my browser, I want that the new page opens in the browser of my iOS app and not in native browser. How can I do this?

Thank in advance for you attention!

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Answer 1

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’15

Are you using WKWebView or UIWebView? For stuff like this you probably want WKWebView because it has a lot more options. Specifically:

For your first question, WKWebView has a whole 'user script' mechanism. It's too complex to explain here but I believe it's covered in some detail in WWDC 2014 Session 206 Introducing the Modern WebKit API.
For your second question, I believe you can do this via the
```
-webView:createWebViewWithConfiguration:forNavigationAction:windowFeatures:
```
delegate callback.

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Answer 2

Archimede OP

Jul ’15

Dear Eskimo,

thank for your reply. The first, and most complicated, question is solved. Related to second, could you please show me only a link or webpage in which the scroll effect I search is explained? I have try to search it but without result.

Thank!

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Answer 3

DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’15

could you please show me only a link or webpage in which the scroll effect I search is explained?

What scroll effect? This is the first time you've mentioned scrolling, so I'm struggling to find the context here.

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Quinn "The Eskimo!"
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware

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