OpenUrl freezes app for over 10 seconds

Question

I\'m currently developing an App, that needs to open a browser to display a webpage. To do that i use the [UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL method with

Answer 1

Here is the answer in Swift 3.0 with a check to see if we can open the URL or not.

guard let url = URL(string: myURLString) else {
    return
}


if UIApplication.shared.canOpenURL(url) {
   DispatchQueue.main.async {
     UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)
   }
}