How to create a WebView in an iOS App using Swift?

As an iOS developer, you will come across multiple scenarios where you have to display something in web, for that we use WebView.

As per Apple, − It is an object that displays interactive web content, such as for an in-app browser.

So in this post, we will be seeing how to create WebView and load the data in it.

So let’s start

Step 1 − Open Xcode and create a single view application and name it WebViewSample.

Step 2 − Open ViewController.swift file and import the WebKit module. import WebKit

Step 3 − Add a property of WebKit in ViewController.swift.

var webView: WKWebView!

Step 4 − Add WKUIDelegate delegate to ViewController.swift

Step 5 − In ViewController.swift add the below method, add override loadView function.

override func loadView() {
   let webConfiguration = WKWebViewConfiguration()
   webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: webConfiguration)
   webView.uiDelegate = self
   view = webView
}

Step 6 − In viewDidLoad create the URL request which you want to load and load the URL

override func viewDidLoad() {
   super.viewDidLoad()
   let myURL = URL(string:"https://www.apple.com")
   let myRequest = URLRequest(url: myURL!)
   webView.load(myRequest)
}

Step 7 − Run the application,

Complete code

import UIKit
import WebKit
class ViewController: UIViewController, WKUIDelegate {
   var webView: WKWebView!
   override func viewDidLoad() {
      super.viewDidLoad()
      let myURL = URL(string:"https://www.apple.com")
      let myRequest = URLRequest(url: myURL!)
      webView.load(myRequest)
   }
   override func loadView() {
      let webConfiguration = WKWebViewConfiguration()
      webView = WKWebView(frame: .zero, configuration: webConfiguration)
      webView.uiDelegate = self
      view = webView
   }
}