uiwebview – Tarik Billa

How to get JSContext from WKWebView

January 9, 2024 by Tarik

You cannot obtain the context, because layout and javascript is handled on another process. Instead, add scripts to your webview configuration, and set your view controller (or another object) as the script message handler. Now, send messages from JavaScript like so: window.webkit.messageHandlers.interOp.postMessage(message) Your script message handler will receive a callback: – (void)userContentController:(WKUserContentController *)userContentController didReceiveScriptMessage:(WKScriptMessage *)message{ … Read more

Video/audio streaming does not stop even if UIWebView is closed – iPad

December 12, 2023 by Tarik

I have the same issue as stated but in this case the video that won’t stop playing is a Youtube video embeded using the object/embed method. I spent a long time trying to figure out how to get the video to stop playing and the only solution I found was to tell the UIWebView to … Read more

How to Migrate to WKWebView?

February 21, 2023 by Tarik

UIWebView will still continue to work with existing apps. WKWebView is available starting from iOS8, only WKWebView has a Nitro JavaScript engine. To take advantage of this faster JavaScript engine in older apps you have to make code changes to use WKWebView instead of UIWebView. For iOS7 and older, you have to continue to use … Read more