How to open UITextView web links in a UIWebView instead of Safari?

Question

I\'m developing and iPhone 3.0 application. And I\'m trying to open web links in a UITextView into a UIWebView instead of Safari. But still no luck.

The UIText

Answer 1

With Swift 3, UITextViewDelegate provides a textView(_:shouldInteractWith:in:interaction:) method. textView(_:shouldInteractWith:in:interaction:) has the following declaration:

Asks the delegate if the specified text view should allow the specified type of user interaction with the given URL in the given range of text.

optional func textView(_ textView: UITextView,  shouldInteractWith URL: URL,  in characterRange: NSRange,  interaction: UITextItemInteraction) -> Bool

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The following code shows how to open UITextView web links in a SFSafariViewController instead of opening them in Safari app:

import UIKit
import SafariServices

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITextViewDelegate {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Set textView
        let textView = UITextView()
        textView.text = "http://www.yahoo.fr http://www.google.fr"
        textView.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
        textView.isEditable = false
        textView.isSelectable = true
        textView.dataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorTypes.link

        // Add view controller as the textView's delegate
        textView.delegate = self

        // auto layout
        view.addSubview(textView)
        textView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
        textView.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerXAnchor).isActive = true
        textView.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: view.centerYAnchor).isActive = true
        textView.heightAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 300).isActive = true
        textView.widthAnchor.constraint(equalToConstant: 300).isActive = true
    }

    func textView(_ textView: UITextView, shouldInteractWith URL: URL, in characterRange: NSRange, interaction: UITextItemInteraction) -> Bool {
        // Open links with a SFSafariViewController instance and return false to prevent the system to open Safari app
        let safariViewController = SFSafariViewController(url: URL)
        present(safariViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

        return false
    }

}