WKWebView open links from certain domain in safari

Question

Within my app I am want to open links from within my domain (e.g.: communionchapelefca.org) in WKWebView but then have links from other domains open in Safari. I would prefer to do this programmatically.

I have found a few solutions on Stack overflow (here, here, here, and here) but they all seem to be Obj-C based and I am looking for a solution using Swift.

ViewController.swift:

import UIKit
import WebKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        
        let myWebView:WKWebView = WKWebView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0,   UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.width, UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.height))
        
        myWebView.loadRequest(NSURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: "http://www.communionchapelefca.org/app-home")!))
        
        self.view.addSubview(myWebView)

Answer 1

You can implement WKNavigationDelegate, add the decidePolicyForNavigationAction method and check there the navigationType and requested url. I have used google.com below but you can just change it to your domain:

Xcode 8.3 • Swift 3.1 or later

import UIKit
import WebKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, WKNavigationDelegate {

    let webView = WKWebView()

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        
        webView.frame = view.bounds
        webView.navigationDelegate = self

        let url = URL(string: "https://www.google.com")!
        let urlRequest = URLRequest(url: url)

        webView.load(urlRequest)
        webView.autoresizingMask = [.flexibleWidth,.flexibleHeight]
        view.addSubview(webView)
    }

    func webView(_ webView: WKWebView, decidePolicyFor navigationAction: WKNavigationAction, decisionHandler: @escaping (WKNavigationActionPolicy) -> Void) {
        if navigationAction.navigationType == .linkActivated  {
            if let url = navigationAction.request.url,
                let host = url.host, !host.hasPrefix("www.google.com"),
                UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(url) {
                UIApplication.shared.open(url)
                print(url)
                print("Redirected to browser. No need to open it locally")
                decisionHandler(.cancel)
                return
            } else {
                print("Open it locally")
                decisionHandler(.allow)
                return
            }
        } else {
            print("not a user click")
            decisionHandler(.allow)
            return
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Here is sample code from the response to the swift written in obj c.

- (void)webView:(WKWebView *)webView decidePolicyForNavigationAction:(nonnull WKNavigationAction *)navigationAction decisionHandler:(nonnull void (^)(WKNavigationActionPolicy))decisionHandler
{
    if (navigationAction.navigationType == WKNavigationTypeLinkActivated) {
        if (navigationAction.request.URL) {
            NSLog(@"%@", navigationAction.request.URL.host);
            if (![navigationAction.request.URL.resourceSpecifier containsString:@"ex path"]) { 
                if ([[UIApplication sharedApplication] canOpenURL:navigationAction.request.URL]) {
                    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:navigationAction.request.URL];
                    decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyCancel);
                }
            } else {
                decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyAllow);
            }
        }
    } else {
        decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyAllow);
    }
}