JXWebViewController

An iOS view controller wrapper for WKWebView.

Since iOS 8, WKWebView is preferred over UIWebView. But unlike UIWebView, WKWebView provide less default behaviors due to the security design. JXWebViewController wrap up a WKWebView and implements a few standard features as iOS Safari does. So web views can be easily used in your apps out-of-the-box. It is also referred to as WebViewController, UIWebViewController or WKWebViewController.

Features

• Allows back forward navigation gestures.
• Support HTTP Basic access authentication.
• Implement JavaScript alert, confirm and prompt.
• Open native links of mailto, tel, itms-apps and so on.
• Open and close pages in current view.
• Reload when web content process is terminated.
• Perform auto detection of phone numbers.
• Proxy the page title to the controller title.
• Add the refresh control.
• Support Handoff from app to Safari.

Requirements

• iOS 11.0+
• Xcode 9.0+
• Swift 4.0+

Installation

JXWebViewController is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'JXWebViewController'

Usage

Quick Start

let url = URL(string: "https://example.com/")!

let webViewController = JXWebViewController()
webViewController.webView.load(URLRequest(url: url))
navigationController?.pushViewController(webViewController, animated: true)

Customization

• Use webView property to access the WKWebView instance.
• Use webViewConfiguration property to set up WKWebViewConfiguration before view is loaded.
• Create a JXWebViewController subclass which implements or overrides WKNavigationDelegate and WKUIDelegate methods.

Credits

Jianqiu Xiao, [email protected]

Sponsors

• BaiLu ShuYuan

License

JXWebViewController is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.