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

Answer 2

In some cases, you can tell all links in your javascript that have target="_blank", and pass them to window.open with the '_system' param. This will work on both iOS and Android.

$(document).on('click', 'a[target="_blank"]', function(ev) {
  var url;

  ev.preventDefault();
  url = $(this).attr('href');
  window.open(url, '_system');
});

Or in your case, simply replace a.setAttribute("target", "_blank"); with a.setAttribute("target", "_system");

This worked for me in an ancient projekt, but im unsure if it still works (on iOS and Android)