An iOS view controller wrapper for WKWebView.

Since iOS 8, WKWebView is preferred over UIWebView. But unlike UIWebView, WKWebView provide less default behaviors due to the security design. JXWebViewController wrap up a WKWebView and implements a few standard features as iOS Safari does. So web views can be easily used in your apps out-of-the-box. It is also referred to as WebViewController, UIWebViewController or WKWebViewController.

• Allows back forward navigation gestures.
• Support HTTP Basic access authentication.
• Implement JavaScript alert, confirm and prompt.
• Open native links of mailto, tel, itms-apps and so on.
• Open and close pages in current view.
• Reload when web content process is terminated.
• Perform auto detection of phone numbers.
• Proxy the page title to the controller title.
• Add the refresh control.
• Support Handoff from app to Safari.

• iOS 11.0+
• Xcode 9.0+
• Swift 4.0+

JXWebViewController is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'JXWebViewController'

let url = URL(string: "https://example.com/")!

let webViewController = JXWebViewController()
webViewController.webView.load(URLRequest(url: url))
navigationController?.pushViewController(webViewController, animated: true)

• Use webView property to access the WKWebView instance.
• Use webViewConfiguration property to set up WKWebViewConfiguration before view is loaded.
• Create a JXWebViewController subclass which implements or overrides WKNavigationDelegate and WKUIDelegate methods.

Jianqiu Xiao, [email protected]

• BaiLu ShuYuan

JXWebViewController is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.