Question

Suppose my app will load a local web page which is stored in my app bundle. I want to push the view or present a view when the user click a link or an image inside that web page. How to do this? Let’s make this be general question: how to communicate with my app from a local web page?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Use “webview.request.URL.absoluteString” to get the request-string of the clicked link in the delegate-method “webViewDidFinishLoad:” or “webViewDidStartLoad:”.
then you can scan this url for some special substring.

For example you could make a link like “…/index.php?iPhone_action=abcdef”.
In the delegate-methods you can check if the link has the substring “?iPhone_action=” and if it does, then put the part of the link, whick follows “?iPhone_action=” in a NSString.
(in our example it would be “abcdef”).
Depending on the value of this NSString you could fire a action in your app.