Within my app I am want to open links from within my domain (e.g.: communionchapelefca.org) in WKWebView but then have links from other domains open in Safari. I would prefer to do this programmatically.
I have found a few solutions on Stack overflow (here, here, here, and here) but they all seem to be Obj-C based and I am looking for a solution using Swift.
ViewController.swift:
import UIKit
import WebKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let myWebView:WKWebView = WKWebView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.width, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.height))
myWebView.loadRequest(NSURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: "http://www.communionchapelefca.org/app-home")!))
self.view.addSubview(myWebView)
You can implement WKNavigationDelegate
, add the decidePolicyForNavigationAction
method and check there the navigationType and requested url. I have used google.com below but you can just change it to your domain:
Xcode 8.3 • Swift 3.1 or later
import UIKit
import WebKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate {
let webView = WKWebView()
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
webView.frame = view.bounds
webView.navigationDelegate = self
let url = URL(string: "https://www.google.com")!
let urlRequest = URLRequest(url: url)
webView.load(urlRequest)
webView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth,.flexibleHeight]
view.addSubview(webView)
}
func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, decidePolicyFor navigationAction: WKNavigationAction, decisionHandler: @escaping (WKNavigationActionPolicy) -> Void) {
if navigationAction.navigationType == .linkActivated {
if let url = navigationAction.request.url,
let host = url.host, !host.hasPrefix("www.google.com"),
UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(url) {
UIApplication.shared.open(url)
print(url)
print("Redirected to browser. No need to open it locally")
decisionHandler(.cancel)
return
} else {
print("Open it locally")
decisionHandler(.allow)
return
}
} else {
print("not a user click")
decisionHandler(.allow)
return
}
}
}