![]() Select the Swift File template and name the file WebView.swift. In the project navigator, right click the project folder and choose New File…. Adopting WKWebView Using UIViewRepresentableĪssuming you have some experience with the integration of SwiftUI and UIKit, you know we need to adopt the UIViewRepresentable protocol to use the components from UIKit.įor this demo, I will create a new file called WebView.swift to implement a custom web view for SwiftUI. In this tutorial, I will walk you through the procedures to adopt WKWebView in SwiftUI projects. To display web content within your applications, you will need to tap into the UIKit framework. However, the current version of SwiftUI doesn’t come with an embedded web view. In the label closure, you can change the code to present an image link using an Image view or other custom views. When a user taps the text, the app opens the link in the Safari browser. It’s almost the same thing with a suit and business card.This presents a text link in orange. I think in in many use cases, having an app on app store doesn’t matter but in many others, it helps. You want to make things easy and obvious for your users. There’s a cheap (maybe even free course?) UX/UI course that Google is teaching via Coursera. BUUT as many of my target users are younger Gen Z/millennials, this is what billion dollar corporations have trained them to be accustomed to so I’m also trying to see how to have that functionality with another service I’m working on. A WKWebView object is a platform-native view that you use to incorporate web content seamlessly into your app’s UI. I think Twitter and Instagram are big time sucks of time and energy. I’ll give another example that’s maybe relevant. Starting a business is hard enough so the less we have to train our users for new behaviors the better IMO. If you have native features, particularly if they are features which bring legitimate value to the app but you've filled in the blanks with web then you should be fine, I've had apps pass review before which operated like this. If this is what our target user is accustomed to doing, then ideally we should go with the flow and support it. If your app is just a wrapper then Apple can reject this. My personal opinion is user behavior/user experience. I just think user adoption is going to be easier when it’s a web link, because it’s less of a barrier. There’s really no difference in how a Glide app functions, whether you installed it via a url or downloaded it from an app store. I know some people prefer the app store due to familiarity, accessibility, discovery, and it appears more professional. However, with a web app, you are simply visiting a web page and still protected behind the browser. I think most app store apps are successful because of brand name and brand trust. ![]() In my opinion, web apps (PWA’s) are easier and I’m personally more likely to check out and use a web app compared to an app store app from an unknown publisher. The shell program is mostly a stripped down browser. ![]() Some other third parties may offer some extras, like full notification support, but for the most part, you are still accessing the app via a url through the web. I believe that anybody that has used various third parties to submit their app to app stores is mostly just wrapping their web app with a shell program that has a web view to the web app. When your PWA is running inside a WebView just as part of a native app, make sure that the user is always able to get back to the app, without having to close the entire app. As you mentioned, apps work just fine by visiting the url and installing from there.
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