Question

I have an small embedded UIWebView for my about-section of the app. When the user taps a link in there, the link opens in that small embedded UIWebView which of course has no navigation controls and isn’t full-screen. I don’t like that. Can I force it to open links with Safari instead?

Answer 1

You can implement the shouldStartLoadWithRequest method of the UIWebViewDelegate protocol to intercept link clicks. Inside that method you can use UIApplication’s openURL method to cause the url to be opened in the appropriate application (ie. Safari for HTTP/HTTPS).

- (BOOL) webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType
{
    NSURL *url = [request URL];

    if ([url isEqual:YOUR_HOME_URL_CONTSTANT])
        return YES;

    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];

    return NO;
}