I am a web frontend developer and working on buildiing webview pages in hybrid app for the first time.
I was considering Page Visibility API and trying to find out if it is supported by webview browsers, like WKWebView and Android Webview, and couldn't find informations about WKWebView support.
I know there is a safari on iOS tab in caniuse.com, but I am not sure if it means WKWebView supports the same.
so I want to know
if safari on iOS supports something, does it mean WKWebView supports the same?
if not, where can I find informations about WKWebView support?
thank you in advance.
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As it has been mentioned here, unfortunately there is a sever bug in WKWebView in iOS preventing using getUserMedia , stopping apps like Chrome, Firefox, or any cordova or capacitor based apps from being able to use the media stream.
Is there an native equivalent thing in iOS as getUserMedia to use it as a workaround?
Could this be used as an alternative, to access the microphone?
I am using such functionality for a voice chat using WebRTC.
As you mentioned WKWebView I assume you are using cordova or something similar to show your existing webapp. If that is so, this might help you: https://github.com/cordova-rtc/cordova-plugin-iosrtc - works perfectly and support by the creators is awesome.
Im working with integrating my iOS app with ladesk Live agent, they don't have an SDK for iOS neither android, you have to embed a unique URL in a UIWebView as per the integration instructions
but it is faced a fact that the video / call button needs to work with webRTC. The WebRTC framework that is responsible for voice functionality in the browser, however webRTC is not available in the mobile versions of web browsers.
The best thing I found is A WebRTC browser for iOS developed in the open. Bowser is built on top of OpenWebRTC. but it didn't work, and had same results as doing the same with UIWebView
Any ideas in Objective c or swift?
You won't be able to use WebRTC in a UIWebView (or its successor WKWebView) since WebRTC is only available in the Safari app on iOS.
The only way forward is to use a WebRTC stack (like Apprtc) and implement your own solution based on that.
What browser is using Corona SDK for the native WebView?
I presume for iOS it is using an Objective C WebView which should use Safari, and for Android it's using Chrome, but I haven't been able to find any reference to it.
I don't know abut Android But iOS UIWebView is not safari that is sure.
You can rad some difference here : UIWebView and Safari comparison
One more article about this : Apple confirms some WebKit optimizations unavailable to iOS Apps
iOS 8 give new WebView named WKWebView One good article about this is here : NSHipster : WKWeb​View
But I don't know that Corona is going to use WKWebView or not.
Apps on iOS or Android devices, do the built-in browsers (like the Facebook & Twitter app) use the OS's browser or do the apps use their own? For instance, if my iOS's main browser is Safari, is it then also used by the apps?
Thanks!
In iOS I think they use the UIWebView class to display a generic web content.
There are also frameworks that allow an application to navigate the web but I don't think they're correlate in any way with Safari.
For the Android part, I guess it's the same..
No. The apps use their own.....
Is it possible to embed the safari browser or a downloadable browser such as Google Chrome into a native mobile application? For example, the app runs entirely independent, but has the option to open the safari browser within the application, rather than opening the Safari that is installed into the phone.
No, this is not possible in iOS. Use a UIWebView instead.
Use webviews instead and here is a list of 3rd party webviews which have more or less the same as safari iphone https://www.cocoacontrols.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=webview