Adding a WKWebView version to replace UIWebView when running under iOS 8...

[richardgroves]

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Adds the WebKit framework to the Demo project, and to the podspec file

This is a first pass and no doubt needs review, especially to see if the multiple if (wkWebView) ... else ... patterns can be cleaned up.

[alexruperez]

👍

[almostintuitive]

It would be nice to have this available:).

[edwardmp]

I recommend merging this in, the Javascript engine in WKWebView is the same as in Safari and the one in UIWebView crashes a lot due to this older Javascript engine.

I've forked this fork to add some stuff related to setting the title of the view (#139)

[richardgroves]

Not it makes much sense anymore with SFSafariViewController out there now in iOS9. I'm switching to use that instead: [weak link with the Safari services framework if still supporting iOS < 9]

#import <SafariServices/SafariServices.h>


// Launch a web link held in NSString* 'link' variable - 
UIViewController* vc = <some view controller to present the web view>

    Class klass = NSClassFromString(@"SFSafariViewController");
    if (klass)
    {
        // class exists
        SFSafariViewController* sv = [[klass alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:link]];
        sv.delegate = self;
        [vc presentViewController:sv animated:YES completion:nil];
    }
    else
    {
        SVModalWebViewController* sv = [[SVModalWebViewController alloc] initWithAddress:link];
        [vc presentViewController:sv animated:YES completion:nil];
    }

and a delegate handler to dismiss it when 'Done' is pressed:

#pragma mark SFSafariViewControllerDelegate
- (void)safariViewControllerDidFinish:(SFSafariViewController *)controller
{
    [controller dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:nil];
}

[edwardmp]

@richardgroves for my own app I integrated SFSafariViewController but I faced a couple of issues. I wanted to put a navbar on top. This was possible but you still see the URL bar. By using offsets I was able to hide the URL bar but it was very hacky. Also I can't set my own user agent. Therefore I will still need a UIWebView or a WKWebView. The latter is almost like a SFSafariViewController but allows for more customization. Thus this framework is still very useful.

[richardgroves]

@edwardmp Fair enough - if you are making noticeable add-ons/modifications to things then having the full source control of this library is great, but for just having an in-app browser the SFSafariViewController is easier. Choice is good!

[edwardmp]

Please merge this in 🙏