SwiftWebVC
SwiftWebVC is a simple inline browser for your Swift iOS app.
SwiftWebVC features:
- iPhone and iPad distinct UIs
- Full landscape orientation support
- Back, forward, stop/refresh and share buttons
- Open in Safari and Chrome UIActivities
- Navbar title set to the currently visible web page
- Talks with
setNetworkActivityIndicatorVisible
- 3 different themes to choose from when presented modally
Installation
CocoaPods
- SwiftWebVC is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:
pod 'SwiftWebVC'
Carthage
Carthage is a decentralized dependency manager that builds your dependencies and provides you with binary frameworks.
You can install Carthage with Homebrew using the following command:
$ brew update
$ brew install carthage
To integrate SwiftWebVC into your Xcode project using Carthage, specify it in your Cartfile
:
github "meismyles/SwiftWebVC"
Run carthage update
to build the framework and drag the built SwiftWebVC.framework
into your Xcode project.
Manual
- Add the
SwiftWebVC/
folder into your project.
Usage
Just like any UIViewController, SwiftWebVC can be pushed into a UINavigationController stack:
let webVC = SwiftWebVC(urlString: "http://google.com")
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(webVC, animated: true)
It can be presented modally using SwiftModalWebVC
:
let webVC = SwiftModalWebVC(urlString: "http://google.com")
self.present(webVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
Options
The share button can be disabled by passing a flag in to the constructor to specify this:
let webVC = SwiftWebVC(urlString: "http://google.com", sharingEnabled: false)
The same principal applies for the modal implementation also:
let webVC = SwiftModalWebVC(urlString: "http://google.com", sharingEnabled: false)
Modal Options Only
Themes may be chosen for the modal implementation. The default theme is Light-Blue
. Other modal themes Light-Black
and Dark
may be chosen using one of the following instead:
let webVC = SwiftModalWebVC(urlString: "http://google.com", theme: .lightBlack)
let webVC = SwiftModalWebVC(urlString: "http://google.com", theme: .dark)
Delegate (Start/Finish Loading Callbacks)
SwiftWebVC also includes a delegate protocol that allows you to implement didStartLoading
and didFinishLoading
functions to determine when loading starts and finishes.
Note: This is currently only implemented for SwiftWebVC
, not SwiftModalWebVC
.
To implement this, after declaring your instance of SwiftWebVC
, set it's delegate and implement the callback functions. For example:
Inititalisation
let webVC = SwiftWebVC(urlString: "https://www.google.com")
webVC.delegate = self
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(webVC, animated: true)
Delegate Implementation
extension ViewController: SwiftWebVCDelegate {
func didStartLoading() {
print("Started loading.")
}
func didFinishLoading(success: Bool) {
print("Finished loading. Success: \(success).")
}
}
SwiftWebVCActivity
Starting in iOS 6 Apple uses UIActivity
to let you show additional sharing methods in share sheets. SwiftWebVC
comes with "Open in Safari" and "Open in Chrome" activities. You can easily add your own activity by subclassing SwiftWebVCActivity
which takes care of a few things automatically for you. Have a look at the Safari and Chrome activities for implementation examples.Typed
Credits
SwiftWebVC is a Swift implementation of Sam Vermette's SVWebViewController. Code transcription, updates and changes were carried out by Myles Ringle. The original SVWebViewController was brought to you by Sam Vermette and contributors to the project.
If you have feature suggestions or bug reports, feel free to help out by sending pull requests or by creating new issues. If you're using SwiftWebVC in your project, attribution is always appreciated.
Thanks to Icons8 for the images.