YABrowserViewController 0.1.1

You want to add pod 'YABrowserViewController', '~> 0.1' similar to the following to your Podfile:

target 'MyApp' do
  pod 'YABrowserViewController', '~> 0.1'
end

Then run a pod install inside your terminal, or from CocoaPods.app.

Alternatively to give it a test run, run the command:

pod try YABrowserViewController

YABrowserViewController 0.1.1

By
Nolan Waite

Yet Another Browser View Controller.

We've all written these things a million times. Here's another one.

When to use YABrowserViewController

You're tired of, or want a head start on, rewriting a little skin over a web view so that people don't get punted out to Safari just to open a website. And you want WKWebView's power while mitigating its deficiencies.

When not to use YABrowserViewController

You want third-party code to permanently mess with your navigation bars. You love undocumented Key-Value Observing usage. You'd like a bunch of other dependencies to be pulled in. You need NSHTTPCookieStorage, NSURLCache, NSURLProtocol, access to folders that aren't tmp, state-preserved URL history, or something else that WKWebView doesn't care for.

System Requirements

YABrowserViewController supports iOS 8.0+.

Installation

You have options:

Drag YABrowserViewController.xcodeproj into your project, add YABrowserViewController as a Target Dependency, then add YABrowserViewController.framework to your Embedded Binaries, then @import YABrowserViewController; or import YABrowserViewController as necessary. (This is how the included sample app is configured, if you need inspiration.)
Drag YABrowserViewController.h and YABrowserViewController.m into your project, along with the Images folder.
Either of the above options, but first add this repository as a submodule.
Using CocoaPods, add to your Podfile: pod 'YABrowserViewController'
Using Carthage, add to your Cartfile: github "nolanw/YABrowserViewController"

Usage

let browser = YABrowserViewController()
browser.URLString = "https://github.com/nolanw/YABrowserViewController"
browser.presentFromViewController(self, animated: true, completion: nil)

Customization isn't YABrowserViewController's strong suit, in that it doesn't really do very much. There aren't any knobs to dial. Instead, you can just set the view controller and navigation controller properties yourself to do whatever you like. Or copy the files over and edit them to suit your needs.

For example, there's a little convenience method there, -presentFromViewController:animated:completion:, for modal presentation. Not enough? Toss a category on YABrowserViewController and set up a UINavigationController however you please!

If you'd like to poke around, see the SampleBrowser app. It has UIKit state preservation and restoration enabled, so you can test that out.

Alternatives

No shortage of these.

Credits

YABrowserViewController is by Nolan Waite.

License

Public domain.