Your First Swift 4 & iOS 11 App - Part 42: | Ray Wenderlich

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Learn how to add web views into your apps to display web pages.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/3990-your-first-swift-4-ios-11-app/lessons/42
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One interesting thing I noticed. When I drag and drop “BullsEye.html”, the html file was not read in “AboutViewController”. However if I Right Click and Select > “Add Files To Project” the html file has been detected. Just in case someone tries to trouble shoot this issue, this small trick is a time saver


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It appears that WebView is deprecated. Should we be using WebKitView?

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I had the same issue. Drage and drop definitely does not work.

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Running into the same issue, I am now trying to use WKWebView instead but it seems like its breaking at this line,

if let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "BullsEye", withExtension: "html")
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Hi, I found this solution
/** The issue is that the file isn’t being coping to your app bundle. To fix it:
click your project
Click your target
Select Build Phases
Expand Copy Bundle Resources
Click ‘+’ and select your file.
**/

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let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: “BullsEye”, withExtension: “html”)
let htmlData = try? Data(contentsOf: url!)
let baseURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: Bundle.main.bundlePath)
webView.load(htmlData!, mimeType: “text/html”, characterEncodingName: “UTF-8”, baseURL: baseURL)

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It did work for me. Thanks a lot!!!

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Excellent. That worked for me as well. Thank you.

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Hmm I have tried all of the above but my webView is still not loading the html file. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Thanks.

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Actually, never mind. I had the webView code in the wrong place. I should have put it in viewDidLoad. oops

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explicitly importing WebKit for WKWebView does the trick

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Continuing the discussion from Your First Swift 4 & iOS 11 App - Part 42: | Ray Wenderlich:

I’m having a fatal error on Thread 1: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional Value.

I reverted the error using WKWebView just like here:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview?changes=_8

My problem now is that the close and about autor buttons disappeared.

My AboutViewController.swift code:

import UIKit
import WebKit

class AboutViewController: UIViewController, WKUIDelegate {

@IBOutlet weak var webView: WKWebView!

@IBAction func close() {
    dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}

override func loadView() {
let webConfiguration = WKWebViewConfiguration()
webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: webConfiguration)
webView.uiDelegate = self
view = webView
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    
    if let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "BullsEye", withExtension: "html") {
        if let htmlData = try? Data(contentsOf: url) {
            let baseURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: Bundle.main.bundlePath)
            webView.load(htmlData, mimeType: "text/html", characterEncodingName: "UTF-8", baseURL: baseURL)
        }
    }
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
}

}

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Hi everybody !

I did in a simpler way that worked, see:
First I created an Outlet referencing the WebKitView and then created the following code:

@IBOutlet weak var webView: WKWebView!

Inside viewDidLoad i put this:

let htmlPath = Bundle.main.path(forResource: “BullsEye”, ofType: “html”)
let url = URL(fileURLWithPath: htmlPath!)
let request = URLRequest(url: url)
webView.load(request)

That’s all
 :wink:

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Your code not working, I’ll just skip the webview part and continue with the course

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I’ve done the same thing, just skipped. My app is working beside this feature.

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We have an updated version of the course coming soon that fixes this issue. In the meantime, skipping this and continuing on seems reasonable :]

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Yes, agreed. The app is working flawlessly except for that ”webHTML” bug.