I created a UITextField where, when the user writes a link and enters, my textfield disappears and my webView appears.
What I am trying to do is, when the user writes the first time their link, the textfield saves that link and when the user opens again the app, the web view opens directly from the last link that the user wrote in the textfield. Basically the stored link should run the second time.
Here is all my code:
import UIKit
import Foundation
let urlKey = "User URL"
class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {
@IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!
@IBOutlet weak var webView: UIWebView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.webView.hidden = true
self.textField.addTarget(self, action: #selector(ViewController.textFieldDidUpdate(_:)), forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.EditingChanged)
if doesURLExist() {
self.textField.text = getURL()
}
}
// Text Field Delegate
func textFieldDidUpdate(textField: UITextField)
{
// Remove Spaces
textField.text = textField.text!.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(" ", withString: "", options: [], range: nil)
// Validate URL
NSURL.validateUrl(textField.text, completion: { (success, urlString, error) -> Void in
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), { () -> Void in
if (success)
{
self.saveURL(urlString!)
self.webView.hidden = false
self.textField.hidden = true
let request = NSURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: urlString!)!)
self.webView.loadRequest(request)
}
else
{
self.webView.stopLoading()
self.webView.hidden = true
}
})
})
}
@IBAction func dismissKeyboard(sender: AnyObject) {
self.resignFirstResponder()
self.view.endEditing(true)
}
func saveURL(urlString: String) {
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
defaults.setObject(urlString, forKey: urlKey)
}
func getURL() -> String {
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
let urlString = defaults.objectForKey(urlKey) as! String
return urlString
}
func doesURLExist() -> Bool {
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
guard let _ = defaults.objectForKey(urlKey) where defaults.objectForKey(urlKey) is String else {
return false
}
return true
}
}
Here is my project in GitHub: https://github.com/anappleapp/NSURLvalidation
You'll want to check if the url exists first by calling doesURLExist
, if it does, you opt out of presenting that textfield. If it does not exist, call saveURL
. NSUserDefaults
provides a simple means to store lightweight data.
let urlKey = "User URL"
func saveURL(urlString: String) {
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
defaults.setObject(urlString, forKey: urlKey)
}
func getURL() -> String {
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
let urlString = defaults.objectForKey(urlKey) as! String
return urlString
}
func doesURLExist() -> Bool {
let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
guard let _ = defaults.objectForKey(urlKey) where defaults.objectForKey(urlKey) is String else {
return false
}
return true
}
So your class should look something like:
import UIKit
import Foundation
let urlKey = "User URL"
class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextFieldDelegate {
@IBOutlet weak var textField: UITextField!
@IBOutlet weak var webView: UIWebView!
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.webView.hidden = true
self.textField.addTarget(self, action: #selector(ViewController.textFieldDidUpdate(_:)), forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.EditingChanged)
if(doesURLExist) {
self.textField.text = getURL()
}
// Demo UI Settings
}
}
// Text Field Delegate
func textFieldDidUpdate(textField: UITextField)
{
// Remove Spaces
textField.text = textField.text!.stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString(" ", withString: "", options: [], range: nil)
// Validate URL
NSURL.validateUrl(textField.text, completion: { (success, urlString, error) -> Void in
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(), { () -> Void in
if (success) {
self.saveURL(urlString)
self.webView.hidden = false
self.textField.hidden = true
let request = NSURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: urlString!)!)
self.webView.loadRequest(request)
} else {
self.webView.stopLoading()
self.webView.hidden = true
}
})
})
}
Don't forget to add the original functions to your class.