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Swift launch waze from webview link

I have a webview which is connected to a url, on this url there is a link that when clicked, should open waze with an adress. on safari it works fine but when I try to open it through my webview it doesn't seem to work. is there any way to do that?

Solution

  • To open the link externally, you'll need to set the UIWebViewDelegate for the webview.

    Then, implement:

    func webView(_ webView: UIWebView, shouldStartLoadWith request: URLRequest, navigationType: UIWebViewNavigationType) -> Bool

    From there, you can grab the URL out of the URLRequest and open the link externally.

    Then, you can call func open(_ url: URL, options: [String : Any] = [:], completionHandler completion: ((Bool) -> Void)? = nil) on your UIApplication with the URL from the webview.