UIWebView Tutorial

Adding a web page to your app is often very useful and quite easy to do. Below is a quick example.

Lets create a view based application as our starting point. Call it WebPage.

Step 1:

Create an IBOutlet for your UIWebView as we do for all UI Objects when using Interface Builder

Header file code:
@interface WebPageViewController : UIViewController {
IBOutlet UIWebView *wView;
}
@property(nonatomic,retain)IBOutlet UIWebView *wView;
@end


M (Implementation File) code:
@implementation WebPageViewController
@synthesize wView;

Step 2:

Open your XIB file in Interface Builder  (if you named your  project according to the project it would be WebPageViewController.xib) by double clicking on it. Drag a UIWebView from your Library onto your View.

Step 3:

Connect your UIWebView to your outlet by dragging the files owner to the UIWebView

Step 4:

Make your files owner the delegate fore your web view by ctrl-clicking on your UIWebView and dragging the line to the files owner.

Step 5:

Finally in your view controller you will need to add the code to load a web page. This is a simple process you will need to memorize. The UIWebView needs to call its loadRequest method which requires a NSURLRequest object. Here I show how you convert a URL String to a NSURLRequest Object.


// Implement viewDidLoad to do additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
//A URL STRING
NSString *urlAddress = @"http://bytedissident.theconspiracy5.com";

//scale the page to the device - This can also be done in IB if you prefer
wView.scalesPageToFit = YES;
}


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