React Native comes with WebView component, which uses UIWebView on iOS. This component uses WKWebView introduced in iOS 8 with all the performance boost. Deployment Target >= iOS 8.0 is required
- You have to install from this repo:
npm install https://github.com/CRAlpha/react-native-wkwebview
- In the XCode's "Project navigator", right click on your project's Libraries folder ➜ Add Files to <...>
- Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-wkwebview ➜ ios ➜ select RCTWKWebView folder and create a group
- Compile and profit (Remember to set Minimum Deployment Target = 8.0)
import WKWebView from 'react-native-wkwebview';
Try replacing your existing WebView
with WKWebView
and it should work in most cases.
WKWebView aims to be a drop in replacement for UIWebView. However, some legacy UIWebView properties are not supported.
Additional props:
- onProgress
A callback to get the loading progress of WKWebView. Derived from estimatedProgress
property.
<WKWebView onProgress={(progress) => console.log(progress)} />
progress
is a double between 0 and 1.
- sendCookies
Set sendCookies
to true to copy cookies from sharedHTTPCookieStorage
when calling loadRequest. This emulates the behavior of react-native's WebView
component.
Currently supported props are:
- automaticallyAdjustContentInsets
- contentInset
- html (deprecated)
- injectedJavaScript
- onError
- onLoad
- onLoadEnd
- onLoadStart
- onNavigationStateChange
- renderError
- renderLoading
- source
- startInLoadingState
- style
- url (deprecated)
- bounces
- onShouldStartLoadWithRequest
- scrollEnabled
Unsupported props are:
- mediaPlaybackRequiresUserAction NO
- scalesPageToFit
- domStorageEnabled
- javaScriptEnabled
- allowsInlineMediaPlayback
- decelerationRate
If you look at the source, the JavaScript side is mostly derived from React Native's WebView. The Objective C side mostly deals with the API difference between UIWebView and WKWebView.
We battle test this component against our app. However, we haven't use all the props so if something does not work as expected, please open a issue or PR.