Question

I have just re-designed my iPhone app using Storyboard… questin is: how do I address the the UIWebView so I can load the html? (I am a newbie when it comes to Obj-C, having done my previous app in MonoTouch, so I’m kinda lost). 😀

Answer 1

Apple Developer docs are really good resource. The usage of UIWebView is outlined here enter link description here

To load a network resource simply pass a NSURLRequest object to loadRequest.

[self.myWebView loadRequest:[NSURLRequest 
    requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.apple.com/"]]];

You can also do this in viewDidLoad (a UIWebView is a subclass of UIView and inherits all its methods). For example, loading a local pdf resource.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];

    NSString *thePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"iPhone_User_Guide" ofType:@"pdf"];
    if (thePath) {
        NSData *pdfData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile:thePath];
        [(UIWebView *)self.view loadData:pdfData MIMEType:@"application/pdf"
            textEncodingName:@"utf-8" baseURL:nil];
    }
}