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What do you need to know about uiwebview?


Asked by Fallon Fischer on Dec 14, 2021 FAQ



Let's say you need to display a web page in your app. You would create a UIWebView and tell it to load that page. It has been replaced with WKWebView (which is what Safari uses) from iOS 8 onwards but it's not deprecated yet.
Subsequently,
UIWebView is a user interface control used in iOS applications. It allows a developer to add web content to their apps. Examples include the Twitter app which brings up links in tweets rather than opening them in Safari. Let's say you need to display a web page in your app.
And, 68 UIWebViewwill still continue to work with existing apps. WKWebViewis available starting from iOS8, only WKWebViewhas a Nitro JavaScript engine. To take advantage of this faster JavaScript engine in older apps you have to make code changes to use WKWebViewinstead of UIWebView.
Keeping this in consideration,
UniWebView wraps the technology under the hood to render a general-purpose web view: It also provides a "Safe Browsing" mode, to help you get a system-level experience of web content, which uses: UniWebView also contains Unity Editor support on macOS for the debug purpose.
One may also ask,
As you probably know UIWebView has been deprecated in iOS 13. I've use it in my projects for years and it was really convenient to display HTML pages inside an app but even to interact with Javascript, for example to perform operations on JSON files sharing the same login with Android and even with the Web.