// JavaScript to send an action to your Objective-C code
var myAppName = 'myfakeappname';
var myActionType = 'myJavascriptActionType';
var myActionParameters = {}; // put extra info into a dict if you need it
// (separating the actionType from parameters makes it easier to parse in ObjC.)
var jsonString = (JSON.stringify(myActionParameters));
var escapedJsonParameters = escape(jsonString);
var url = myAppName + '://' + myActionType + "#" + escapedJsonParameters;
document.location.href = url;
- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView
shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request
navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
// these need to match the values defined in your JavaScript
NSString *myAppScheme = @"myfakeappname";
NSString *myActionType = @"myJavascriptActionType";
// ignore legit webview requests so they load normally
if (![request.URL.scheme isEqualToString:myAppScheme]) {
return YES;
}
// get the action from the path
NSString *actionType = request.URL.host;
// deserialize the request JSON
NSString *jsonDictString = [request.URL.fragment stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
// look at the actionType and do whatever you want here
if ([actionType isEqualToString:myActionType]) {
// do something in response to your javascript action
// if you used an action parameters dict, deserialize and inspect it here
}
// make sure to return NO so that your webview doesn't try to load your made-up URL
return NO;
}