I'm using UIWebView to load URL in my app, so while login into that URL, Home page of my application will come,
in that home page i have another button to call a new URL which needs Adobe Flash Player, so it is showing an error like
"This content requires Adobe Flash Player, which is not supported by your device. This content can be viewed on a desktop computer or on mobile devices that support Flash Player".
Could you please suggest me is there any third party library available to resolve this or i need to open that new URL in Safari Browser of iPad.
Apple famously decided not to allow Flash on iOS devices for a number of reasons back in 2010. As far as I know, that hasn't changed. There are apparently some apps that let you view Flash content, but it doesn't sound like a very good experience.
There's no Flash library that you can build into an app to access Flash. Since you control the web content in question, your best bet by far is to build a version of that content that uses HTML5 instead of Flash.
Even Adobe is making the switch to HTML5; your Flash content has passed it's expiration date.
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I need to create an iOS app that just displays a website. The site allows users to record audio. The purpose is to let mobile Safari users to record audio (which is currently not supported). Are there any decent solutions for this or am I going to have to hack my way through? So far I have the following two ideas:
1) Build a native application that contains a WKWebView of the site. If the website detects mobile Safari it will launch some JavaScript that the app can respond to (or it will try to bring the user to the App Store using Universal Links). The native app will then record the audio and send it back to the website somehow (either through an external server, or perhaps through JavaScript, not sure how much data can be passed, but it could be up to 1MB).
2) Use an existing solution using perhaps Cordova/PhoneGap.
Hope to get some tips!
Build an hybrid application based on cordova/PhoneGap seems to be the best in my opinion. In addition you can build for iOS and Android (if you need later).
You can easily use this plugin to achieve your app.
I noticed this web browser, Photon (iTunes Store link) is able to play flash. My question is, if Apple doesn't allow flash to run on devices and all web browsers must use Apple's UIWebView, how can this app enable Flash playback?
Most third party apps route flash video to a there own Server to be re-encoded to another Safari friendly file format such as mp4. Once the was bee re-encoded it sent back to there client device
Has anyone else noticed that Safari (and even Chrome) for iOS attempt to preload all audio tags even if you use the preload="none":
<audio src="test.mp3" preload="none"></audio>
Desktop browsers appear to work correctly, but as soon as I load the page from the iPhone the Apache server registers a request for the file.
According to Apple Docs, Mobile Safari never loads music file or metadata until user touch is detected. This is to make sure a webpage doesn't request a lot of music or data to be downloaded on mobile devices which might take up a lot of mobile data. So preload tag is essentially always set to "none" in mobile Safari regardless of what your code has. Here's the link to the docs where they explain everything.
Quote straight from the docs "Note: The preload attribute is supported in Safari 5.0 and later. Safari on iOS never preloads."
I need to supply a single page website for a client to view offline on an iPad / iPhone.
The webpage will have Javascript, image and video assets. Reading about Cache Manifest it seems the cache on iPad is limited to 5mb.
Anyone suggest any routes forward, which ideally do not require the use of an additional app, but will allow for the offline storage of video.
You will likely have trouble with Safari to guarantee availability of your web page and videos offline.
The most reliable alternative would be to create an app using PhoneGap, because that would give you control over the video and the web page being stored offline. However that requires you to distribute it as an iOS-app to your client.
If you don't/can't distribute it as an app, you could try to find an app that is designed for offline browsing and supports video on the appstore. If you search for "Offline browser iPhone" on google or appstore you will be presented with some alternatives.
I don't think this is currently possible with straight HTML (although I've heard that HTML5 may support this in the future):
I'd like a web app that can record audio from the iPad (and also, ideally iPhone).
This will not be an iOS app. It's a web page.
Unfortunately, no. The only hardware functions you can get access to via HTML/JS are the location service and the accelerometer.