NSCoriolisBlog » browsing http://blog.coriolis.ch Just another Coriolis weblog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:43:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Extend UIWebView to handle all special links http://blog.coriolis.ch/2009/10/29/extend-uiwebview-to-handle-all-special-links/ http://blog.coriolis.ch/2009/10/29/extend-uiwebview-to-handle-all-special-links/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:57:09 +0000 Stephan http://blog.coriolis.ch/?p=235 Have you ever wanted to add an UIWebView to your application, so you can browse the internets without leaving your application? While it is a trivial task to add an UIWebView to a project, there are some links that an UIWebView will not handle.

These are:

  • mailto
  • YouTube
  • maps.google.com
  • iTunes
  • AppStore

I’ve written a generic BrowserViewController, code available on GitHub here: http://github.com/sburlot/browserviewcontroller which handles all these cases:

mailto links are handled with a MFMail: I tried to handle all variations on the link: “to”, “cc”, “subject” and “body”.

YouTube, Map, iTunes and AppStore links are opened in their respective apps.

You can customise the view and decide if you want a navigation tab bar or not.

The navigation tab bar will add standard web buttons: Back, Forward, Stop, Reload and also a button to send the url of the current page via email, or open it in Safari.

Enjoy!

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