Question about openURL and UIWebview

Millerszone

After calling application:openUrl("http://www.giderosmobile.com"), does the app close
and then open the web browser? Just wanted to know if I have to do anything special after
calling openURL.

I didn't see anything on the roadmap about UIWebview. Would be nice to have so we
don't have to exit the app to view a website.
http://www.iphonesdkarticles.com/2008/08/uiwebview-tutorial.html

Thanks

atilim

We don't support web views yet. But it has very high priority with virtual keyboard and alert views. (We'll update the roadmap)

Thank you

gorkem

Roadmap updated.

See http://www.giderosmobile.com/DevCenter/index.php/Product_Roadmap

and also ideas for Gideros Studio page: http://www.giderosmobile.com/DevCenter/index.php/New_Ideas_for_IDE

Stoffe

Awakening old thread just to add that it would be very nice to have a webview widget that could do nothing but load a webpage (apart from the stuff it can do within itself of course). Webpage should be able to be loaded from local or remote. It would be an excellent way to display help texts and such with very little effort, and if it's a widget it's possible to add a "close" or "back" button outside of it. For Android, just opening an URL and instructing to use the back button is kind of working, but it's not very good UI.

So in short, if it's possible to easily add just the dumb component that only loads a page, please do. If it's complicated, don't. Controlling it can come later, much later...

atilim

not so easy to add. but webview has very high priority and will come soon.

mikepixie

Hiya

I am just checking to see the status of webview, I am tossing up between corona and gideros at the moment. I would love to use gideros but my projects require webviews for handling my oauth 2 proxy for the API I am using.

ar2rsawseen

@mikepixie
Are you interested in any specific platform, ios or android, or both?

techdojo

For webview (on iOS) you can use either the MHUIKit plugin or the (IMHO) much better Wax plugin.

For Android you'll have to roll your own plugin (if someone hasn't already done it)

In either case they're not part of the display stack but appear on top (but then again I think they do in Corona as well).

mikepixie

I am looking for something for both platforms but android to start as I don't own any iDevices for testing. So my primary development is focused on Android.

The HTML 5 versions of my apps can handle OAUTH 2 with ease as it is simply a case of opening a new window and pushing messages around. However as soon as you bring that to mobile you end up with fragmentation, some bits work and others don't. I am not a massive Java programmer so rolling my own seems like a last resort.

I don't mind the webview appearing on top of the display stack, it is simply to provide a window to my OAuth Proxy.

Thanks for the help, I like how friendly the forums are.

Cyberience

Well Time has passed, and I look and see if the WebView is working, but Alas, I see it in the Road map, and whats this? nothing mentioned in the Documentation? so is this guesswork Programming, or is there a hidden secret I need to pay a million to find out, its like Magic.

moopf

@Cyberience - I don't believe native webview support has arrived in Gideros. Although you could possibly use BhWax plugin for iOS - http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/1719/using-wax-for-easy-access-to-objective-c-under-ios-gideros/p1 - and JVBridge - http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/2319/jvbridge-plugin-android#Item_23 - for Android. I don't use them myself but I know BhWax, especially, has been used by quite a number of developers here.

Cyberience

Thanks @moopf, these will only work on a device too, so its a hard to test till deployed solution.

somezombiegm

I'm getting an error:
Attemp to call method openURL (a nil value)

Any suggestions?

totebo

Hey @somezombiegm, it should be openUrl, rather than openURL:

application:openUrl('<a href="http://www.google.com'" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com'</a>)

somezombiegm

@totebo right, thanks! ">