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How to open only some urls in WebView
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/*
From @craigpfau - http://craigpfau.com/2012/02/phonegap-ios-uiwebview-and-safari-app-links/
To just enable UIWebView for the single URL I used this code [projectFolder > Classes > MainViewController.m]
*/
- (BOOL) webView:(UIWebView*)theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest*)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
NSURL *url = request.URL;
if ([url.absoluteString rangeOfString:@"URLToOpenInUIWebView.com"].location != NSNotFound) {
return YES;
}
else {
return [super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType];
}
}
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This isn't working for me, I have cordova 1.7, which I know this is for 1.8 but I really don't want to go through the hassle of upgrading just to find out it still doesn't work. I'm getting the following warning, wondered if you might be able to shed some light on this.

'NSObject' may not respond to 'webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:'

I'm trying to enable this piece of code for vimeo.com but even when I have a plain link to vimeo, it still launches safari...any thoughts? Let me know, thanks!

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robcolburn commented Jun 14, 2012 via email

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Hey - I tried using Craigs old script and that didn't work. So then I updated cordova to 8.1 and now I am getting these warnings:

'UIViewController' may not respond to 'webView.shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType:

I'm really racking my brain, tried pretty much everything imaginable to fix this issue. Any help you can provide would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks!

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Odd man, not sure. I'd try this.

  1. Fire up X-Code, and make a fresh PhoneGap in the normal way. As you normally would, set the whitelist to *, keep that option to open all whitelisted links in view turned off..
  2. Set up an index with some trivial content.
<body>
  <p><a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">1. Googe</a></p>
  <p><a href="http://www.yahoo.com" target="_blank">2. Yahoo</a></p>
</body>
  1. Then make the revision in this gist, changing "URLToOpenInUIWebView.com" to "google.com".
  2. That should make it so Google opens in the view, and Yahoo in Safari.

Once you've got that working, try to figure out what's different in your app.

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