How to use Javascript to communicate with Objective-c code?

Question

In a native iPhone app, I use a UIWebView to load a web page.

I want to use JavaScript in the web page to communicate back with the Objective-C code, f

Answer 1

There is no "direct" way to do this, but you could utilize the UIWebViewDelegate and trap a link with a custom scheme, so in your markup, you'd write something like this:

<a href="myapp://app_action?doSomething">Do Something</a>

Then, in your UIWebViewDelegate's -webView:shouldStartLoadWithRequest:navigationType: method, write something like this:

- (BOOL)webView:(UIWebView *)webView shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)request navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)navigationType {
    if([[[request URL] scheme] isEqualToString:@"myapp"]) { 
       SEL selector = NSSelectorFromString([[request URL] query]);
       if([self respondsToSelector:selector]) {
          [self performSelector:selector];
       } else {
          //alert user of invalid URL
       }
       return NO;
    }
    return YES;
}