KINWebBrowser
KINWebBrowser is a web browser module for your apps.
Powered by WKWebView on iOS 8. Backwards compatible with iOS 7 using UIWebView.
Features
- iOS 7 & 8 support for iPhone and iPad devices
- Safari-like interface
- Animated progress bar
- Customizable UI including tint color
- Portrait and landscape orientation support
- Use with existing UINavigationController or present modally
- Delegate protocol for status callbacks
- Action button to allow users to copy URL, share, or open in Safari & Google Chrome
- Supports subclassing
- Installation with CocoaPods
Overview
KINWebBrowser consists of a single component:
KINWebBrowserViewController
- a UIViewController
that contains a full featured web browser.
KINWebBrowserViewController
must be contained in a UINavigationController.
Pushing to the navigation stack:
KINWebBrowserViewController *webBrowser = [KINWebBrowserViewController webBrowser];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:webBrowser animated:YES];
[webBrowser loadURLString:@"http://www.example.com"];
Presenting Modally:
UINavigationController *webBrowserNavigationController = [KINWebBrowserViewController navigationControllerWithWebBrowser];
[self presentViewController:webBrowserNavigationController animated:YES completion:nil];
KINWebBrowserViewController *webBrowser = [webBrowserNavigationController rootWebBrowser];
[webBrowser loadURLString:@"http://www.example.com"];
Installation
CocoaPods
CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Objective-C, which automates and simplifies the process of using 3rd-party libraries in your projects. See the "Getting Started" for more information.
Podfile
platform :ios, '7.0'
pod 'KINWebBrowser'
Dependencies
These dependency projects should be also installed with KINWebBrowser. They are installed automatically when installing KINWebBrowser with CocoaPods.
- TUSafariActivity - a UIActivity subclass that provides an "Open In Safari" action to a UIActivityViewController
- ARChromeActivity - a UIActivity subclass that provides an "Open In Google Chrome" action to a UIActivityViewController
Customizing the User Interface
Tint Color
The tint color of the toolbars and toolbar items can be customized.
webBrowser.tintColor = [UIColor blueColor];
webBrowser.barTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
Title Bar Content
The URL can be shown in the UINavigationBar
while loading. The title of the page can be shown when loading completes.
webBrowser.showsURLInNavigationBar = NO;
webBrowser.showsPageTitleInNavigationBar = YES;
KINWebBrowserDelegate
Protocol
Implementing KINWebBrowserDelegate
is a set of @optional
callback methods to inform the delegate
of status changes.
- (void)webBrowser:(KINWebBrowserViewController *)webBrowser didStartLoadingURL:(NSURL *)URL;
- (void)webBrowser:(KINWebBrowserViewController *)webBrowser didFinishLoadingURL:(NSURL *)URL;
- (void)webBrowser:(KINWebBrowserViewController *)webBrowser didFailToLoadURL:(NSURL *)URL withError:(NSError *)error;