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On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:05 AM Niklas Merz <niklas.m...@rhoen.de> wrote:

> I have looked around in cordova-ios and found a way to switch the webview
> at runtime. As far as I understood how cordova-ios works it, is enough to
> set the name of the new webview and call the right method to reload the
> webview.
>
> We have built a plugin which does that for our use case:
> https://github.com/GEDYSIntraWare/cordova-plugin-webview-switch
>
> Now I can call the plugins Javascript function and the app reloads with
> the webview I want to. This works perfectly for now.
>
> Do you see any chance to integrate parts of this into cordova-ios? If this
> sounds feasible, I would be glad to contribute this. I just need some
> feedback if this approach makes sense and where to implement the changes.
> Changing the webview is a dangerous action because the apps restarts
> completely and open plugin callbacks may run into exceptions which can
> cause crashes. Where do you to put JS code for platform code?
>
> I am available to talk more about that via e-mail or the Cordova Slack.
> Please let me know who is the right person to talk to. I would love to see
> this feature in cordova-ios.
>
>
> Best regards
> Niklas
>
>
> julio cesar sanchez – Tue, 8. January 2019 19:35
> > As far as I know, WKWebView was going to be integrated into cordova-ios,
> > and as I understand it, it's not going to be a real plugin, but a method
> in
> > cordova-ios to switch the webview at runtime.
> >
> > Looking at cordova-ios repo I couldn't find anything about the WKWebView
> > integration, so looks like nobody is working on it yet. (it was a quick
> > look, so maybe I missed it)
> >
> > El mar., 8 ene. 2019 a las 17:40, Niklas Merz (<niklasm...@linux.com>)
> > escribió:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I am working on implementing WKWebView into our app right now. This
> blog
> > > post announced changes to cordova-ios and a "bridge" plugin:
> > > cordova.apache.org/news/2018/08/01/future-cordova-ios-webview.html
> > >
> > > Is this plugin already in development? Can I test it or contribute to
> > > development? An option to switch between WebViewEngines in runtime
> would
> > > make stuff easier for this app.
> > >
> > > I`m looking forward helping.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Niklas
> > >
> > >
> > >
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