Docx support in UIWebview(iOS)?

Question

I have checked the official links for doc support, and it\'s clear that docx is not supported in UIWebview.

But, I also found out that some guys were able to open docx f

Answer 1

Yes UIWebView supports the docx. Just tried loading a docx file from bundle and it seems working fine(in this example named "DOC1.docx")::

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"DOC1" ofType:@"docx"];
NSURL *targetURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:targetURL];
[mywebView loadRequest:request];

and If you are trying to display a docx file residing on a server somewhere, you can simply load it to your web view directly:

NSURL *targetURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.central.wa.edu.au/Current_Students/JobsCareersandLeavingCentral/Documents/Resume%20Template.docx"];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:targetURL];
[mywebView loadRequest:request];

Answer 2

Using UIWebView to display select document types

As per the Apple documentation, docx isn't supported by UIWebView and is deprecated.

To open docx in app use UIDocumentInteractionController.

DispatchQueue.main.async {
      let docOpener = UIDocumentInteractionController.init(url: fileURL)
      docOpener.delegate = self
      docOpener.presentPreview(animated: true)
}

Answer 3

Don't know why but using the URL scheme to load docx didn't work, (below code didn't work)

 NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:urlPath];
[webViewForDocsView loadRequest:request];

Instead, loading the file in memory(using NSData) and loading the data with MIME type worked (the below code worked like charm!)

NSString *path = [urlFileInView path];
NSData *data = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsAtPath:path];


webViewForDocsView.delegate = self;
[webViewForDocsView loadData:data MIMEType:@"application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document" textEncodingName:@"UTF-8" baseURL:nil];