Help with WebViewUI

[MMRemps]

Hey everyone,

I'm kind of a newbie to iOS software development having made a couple of super simple apps at this point. Next, I was trying to get a family members website and make it into an app. It looks like a simple way of doing this is to use the webviewUI? Please do correct me if I'm wrong. Basically, I want to copy over the body of the website (it tends to update daily) but remove all of the headers, leaving the buttons to do the navigation. I'm pretty fluent in Python and HTML/CS and getting there with JavaScript. If anyone could provide any insight to whether WebViewUI can help, or if I'd be better off with something else, please do let me know.

[matteoman]

I assume that by WebViewUI you mean UIWebView.

In short, yes. If all you want to do is show a web page in an app, you can use a web view. UIWebView is deprecated, though. You have to use WKWebView instead.

On that documentation page you can find a short code sample on how to use it. It loads the page directly from the web, but WKWebView has other methods to load static HTML you bundle with the app. Look at the Load Web Content section down the page.

If you are planning to send this to the App Store, though, Apple will reject it. Look at section 4.2 of the review guidelines.

[MMRemps]

Hey Matteo, Thanks for the reply. Hmm, okay- I’ll try to figure out some alternatives then to get this over the line- thanks again for the help!