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Is WKWebView designed as a replacement of UIWebView?

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Asking this questions as I am not sure why Apple introduced WKWebView without deprecating UIWebView. It is important to have an idea as I am programming a large code base and need to make an informed / fact based decision.

  • Are there any reason for which we may have to expect both classes to co-exist in the future and none get deprecated?

  • Is WKWebView purely designed for speed performance (using JIT) and will likely to serve only for certain use cases?

Current limitations of WKWebView:

https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/mobile-firefox-dev/2014-December/000993.html

How can I retrieve a file using WKWebView?

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mm24 Avatar asked Mar 27 '15 14:03

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According to Xcode 9, UIWebView is deprecated. 🤷‍♂️

Xcode 9

And a documentation message reads:

Legacy UIWebView for support of older macOS platforms. Prefer using WKWebView if possible.

Updated: UIWebView is deprecated for real now in iOS 12. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview

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Zelko Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 17:09

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