iOS UIWebView app opens link in Safari

Question

I have an iOS app which has only one view and that is UIWebView (It opens the main content of the app). I would like when I make a click somewhere(e.g on a table row) the a

Answer 1

In case the above answer does not work for you you can fix it in an iOS way. For that you need to implement the webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest UIWebViewDelegate protocol method where to check your URL.

 - (BOOL) webView: (UIWebView *) theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *) request navigationType: (UIWebViewNavigationType) navigationType
{
    NSURL *url = [request URL];
    // check URL in your if condition
    if (...) {
        //open URL in Safari
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
        return NO;
    }
    else
        return [ super webView:theWebView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:request navigationType:navigationType ];
}

There is a constraint with the above answer, you need to implement the mechanism of notifying the ios app from JQuery, possible workaround is discussed here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11633460/3317354