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When writing a iPhone / iPad app with a UIWebView, the console isn't visible. this excellent answer shows how to trap errors, but I would like to use the console.log() as well.
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What is UIWebView? UIWebView is a deprecated iOS user interface control in Apple's UIKit framework. It loads HTML files and web content into an app view, rendering them as they would appear in a browser window. See developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview.
Apple is phasing out UIWebView, which is used by developers for integrating web content into an app in a quick and secure manner. Apple is replacing UIWebView (and WebView) with WKWebView, an updated version, as UIWebView has been deprecated.
JavaScript Math log() The JavaScript Math. log() function returns the natural logarithm of a number. It returns the natural logarithm (base e) of a number.
Debugging with WKWebViewOpen Safari and press ⌘+, to open Preference, under the Advanced tab, check “Show Develop menu in menu bar”. Not until we have the project build can we use the Safari debugger. The debugger is under Develop → Your simulator or device.
After consulting with an esteemed colleague today he alerted me to the Safari Developer Toolkit, and how this can be connected to UIWebViews in the iOS Simulator for console output (and debugging!).
Steps:
[the name of your UIWebView file] You can now drop complex (in my case, flot) Javascript and other stuff into UIWebViews and debug at will.
EDIT: As pointed out by @Joshua J McKinnon this strategy also works when debugging UIWebViews on a device. Simply enable Web Inspector on your device settings: Settings->Safari->Advanced->Web Inspector (cheers @Jeremy Wiebe)
UPDATE: WKWebView is supported too
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