@nativescript-community/ui-webview

Extended WebView for NativeScript which adds many options. The code is originally based on nativescript-webview-ext

Features

• Adds a custom-scheme handler for x-local:// to the webview for loading of resources inside the webview.

  • Note: For iOS 11+ WKWebView is used, but for iOS <11 UIWebView is used

• Adds support for capturing URLs.

  • This allows the app to open external links in an external browser and handle tel-links

• Added functions like:

  • executeJavaScript(code: string) for executing JavaScript-code and getting result.
  • executePromise(code: string) for calling promises and getting the result.
  • getTitle() returns document.title.

• Adds functions to inject css- and javascript-files.

  • Into the current page.
  • Auto-injected on page load.

• Supports:

  • Android 19+
  • iOS 9+

Installation

Describe your plugin installation steps. Ideally it would be something like:

tns plugin add @nativescript-community/ui-webview

Angular support

Import AWebViewModule from @nativescript-community/ui-webview/angular and add it to your NgModule.

This registers the element AWebView. Replace the tag with

Vue support

import Vue from 'nativescript-vue';
import WebViewPlugin from '@nativescript-community/ui-webview/vue';

Vue.use(WebViewPlugin);

This registers the element AWebView. Replace the tag with

Usage

Limitations

In order to intercept requests for the custom scheme, we use UIWebView for iOS 9 and 10 and WKWebView for iOS 11+.

iOS 11 added support for setting a WKURLSchemeHandler on the WKWebView. Prior to iOS 11 there isn't support for intercepting the URL with WKWebView, so we use a custom NSURLProtocol + UIWebView.

Important:

The custom NSURLProtocol used with UIWebView is shared with all instances of the AWebView, so mapping x-local://local-filename.js => file://app/full/path/local-filename.js is shared between them.

API

NativeScript View

| Property | Value | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | readonly isUIWebView | true / false | Is the native webview an UIWebView? True if iOS <11 | | readonly isWkWebView | true / false | Is the native webview an WKWebView? True if iOS >=11 | | src | | Load src | | autoInjectJSBridge | true / false | Should the window.nsWebViewBridge be injected on loadFinishedEvent? Defaults to true | | builtInZoomControls | true / false | Android: Is the built-in zoom mechanisms being used | | cacheMode | default / no_cache / cache_first / cache_only | Android: Set caching mode. | | databaseStorage | true / false | Android: Enable/Disabled database storage API. Note: It affects all webviews in the process. | | debugMode | true / false | Enable chrome debugger for webview on Android and Safari debugger for webview on iOS. Note: Applies to all webviews in App | | displayZoomControls | true / false | Android: displays on-screen zoom controls when using the built-in zoom mechanisms | | domStorage | true / false | Android: Enable/Disabled DOM Storage API. E.g localStorage | | scalesPageToFit | UIWebView: Should webpage scale to fit the view? Defaults to false | | scrollBounce | true / false | iOS: Should the scrollView bounce? Defaults to true. | | supportZoom | true / false | Android: should the webview support zoom | | viewPortSize | false / view-port string / ViewPortProperties | Set the viewport metadata on load finished. Note: WkWebView sets initial-scale=1.0 by default. | | limitsNavigationsToAppBoundDomains | false | iOS: allows to enable Service Workers Note: If set to true, WKAppBoundDomains also should be set in info.plist. | | scrollBarIndicatorVisible | false | Allow to hide scrollbars. |

| Function | Description | | --- | --- | | loadUrl(src: string): Promise | Open a URL and resolves a promise once it has finished loading. | | registerLocalResource(resourceName: string, path: string): void; | Map the "x-local://{resourceName}" => "{path}". | | unregisterLocalResource(resourceName: string): void; | Removes the mapping from "x-local://{resourceName}" => "{path}" | | getRegisteredLocalResource(resourceName: string): void; | Get the mapping from "x-local://{resourceName}" => "{path}" | | loadJavaScriptFile(scriptName: string, filepath: string) | Inject a javascript-file into the webview. Should be called after the loadFinishedEvent | | loadStyleSheetFile(stylesheetName: string, filepath: string, insertBefore: boolean) | Loads a CSS-file into document.head. If before is true, it will be added to the top of document.head otherwise as the last element | | loadJavaScriptFiles(files: {resourceName: string, filepath: string}[]) | Inject multiple javascript-files into the webview. Should be called after the loadFinishedEvent | | loadStyleSheetFiles(files: {resourceName: string, filepath: string, insertBefore: boolean}[]) | Loads multiple CSS-files into the document.head. If before is true, it will be added to the top of document.head otherwise as the last element | | autoLoadJavaScriptFile(resourceName: string, filepath: string) | Register a JavaScript-file to be injected on loadFinishedEvent. If a page is already loaded, the script will be injected into the current page. | | autoLoadStyleSheetFile(resourceName: string, filepath: string, insertBefore?: boolean) | Register a CSS-file to be injected on loadFinishedEvent. If a page is already loaded, the CSS-file will be injected into the current page. | | autoExecuteJavaScript(scriptCode: string, name: string) | Execute a script on loadFinishedEvent. The script can be a promise | | executeJavaScript(scriptCode: string) | Execute JavaScript in the webpage. Note: scriptCode should be ES5 compatible, or it might not work on 'iOS < 11' | | executePromise(scriptCode: string, timeout: number = 500) | Run a promise inside the webview. Note: Executing scriptCode must return a promise. | | emitToWebView(eventName: string, data: any) | Emit an event to the webview. Note: data must be stringify'able with JSON.stringify or this throws an exception. | | getTitle() | Returns a promise with the current document title. |

Events

| Event | Description | | --- | --- | | loadFinished | Raised when a loadFinished event occurs. args is a LoadFinishedEventData | | loadProgress | Android only: Raised during page load to indicate the progress. args is a LoadProgressEventData | | loadStarted | Raised when a loadStarted event occurs. args is a LoadStartedEventData | | shouldOverrideUrlLoading | Raised before the webview requests an URL. Can cancelled by setting args.cancel = true in the ShouldOverrideUrlLoadEventData | | titleChanged | Document title changed | | webAlert | Raised when window.alert is triggered inside the webview, needed to use customs dialogs for web alerts. args in a WebAlertEventData. args.callback() must be called to indicate alert is closed. NOTE: Not supported by UIWebView | | webConfirm | Raised when window.confirm is triggered inside the webview, needed to use customs dialogs for web confirm boxes. args in a webConfirmEvent. args.callback(boolean) must be called to indicate confirm box is closed. NOTE: Not supported by UIWebView | | webConsole | Android only: Raised when a line is added to the web console. args is a WebConsoleEventData. | | webPrompt | Raised when window.prompt is triggered inside the webview, needed to use customs dialogs for web prompt boxes. args in a webConfirmEvent. args.callback(string | null) must be called to indicate prompt box is closed. NOTE: Not supported by UIWebView | | Events emitted from the webview | Raised when nsWebViewBridge.emit(...) is called inside the webview. args in an WebViewEventData |

WebView

Inside the WebView we have the nsWebViewBridge for sending events between the NativeScript-layer and the WebView. Note: The bridge will only be available DOMContentLoaded or onload inside the WebView.

| Function | Description | | --- | --- | | window.nsWebViewBridge.on(eventName: string, cb: (data: any) => void) | Registers handlers for events from the native layer. | | window.nsWebViewBridge.off(eventName: string, cb?: (data: any) => void) | Unregister handlers for events from the native layer. | | window.nsWebViewBridge.emit(eventName: string, data: any) | Emits event to NativeScript layer. Will be emitted on the AWebView as any other event, data will be a part of the WebViewEventData-object |

Possible features to come:

• Cookie helpers?
• Setting view-port metadata?
• Share cache with native-layer?

Android

• Settings
  • AppCache?
  • User agent?

iOS

• Settings?

Demo and unit tests

Running the demo

To run the demo-project, the plugin must be build locally and a http-server must be running.

The easiest way to run the demo is to follow these steps:

• Clone the git repository from https://github.com/nativescript-community/ui-webview.git
• Go into the src-folder
• Use the npm-scripts:
  • npm run demo.ios
  • npm run demo.android

Running the unit-tests

• Clone the git repository from https://github.com/nativescript-community/ui-webview.git
• Go into the src-folder
• Use the npm-scripts:
  • npm run test.ios
  • npm run test.android

License

Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004

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