The recent 12.2 update stopped some functionality in our WebView from working, strangely only on real devices--it works fine in simulators. When a link is clicked in the webview, some code determines whether the link should open in the webview, or open up a new browser window. The links are standard href links with target="_blank". The code to determine whether or not to open a new browser window looks like this:
#pragma UIWebView delegate
- (BOOL) webView:(UIWebView *)inWeb shouldStartLoadWithRequest:(NSURLRequest *)inRequest navigationType:(UIWebViewNavigationType)inType
{
BOOL shouldOpenBrowser = NO;
if ((inRequest.URL.absoluteString.length > 0) && (![inRequest.URL.absoluteString isEqualToString:@"about:blank"])) {
self.strUrl = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", [inRequest URL]];
if ([inRequest.URL.absoluteString containsString:@"google.com/recaptcha"]) {
shouldOpenBrowser = NO;
} else if (![inRequest.URL.host hasSuffix:@"mywebviewdomain.com"]) {
shouldOpenBrowser = YES;
} else {
NSString *strMatchedUrl = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://mywebviewdomain.com/link/%@/%@/%@",self.var1, self.var2,self.var3];
if (![inRequest.URL.absoluteString containsString:strMatchedUrl]) {
shouldOpenBrowser = NO;
} else {
shouldOpenBrowser = YES;
}
}
}else if([inRequest.URL.absoluteString hasPrefix:@"newtab:"])
{
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[inRequest.URL.absoluteString substringFromIndex:7]];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:url];
return true;
}
if (shouldOpenBrowser == YES) {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[inRequest URL]];
return NO;
}
return YES;
}
As you can see, all links that don't go to mywebviewdomain.com should open a new browser window. On real devices, nothing happens when the links are clicked. It works fine in iOS 12.2 simulators.
What's the problem here? And is there any solution I can do in the webpage, to avoid having to do an app update?
