This post deals with using UIWebView in iPhone applications. You can use webview to load web contents in your application.

1) Lets say we have a view controller class “webViewController”. Open webViewController.h file and add the following lines of code.

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
@interface webViewController : UIViewController {
	IBOutlet UIWebView *WView;
}

@end

2) Now come to webViewController .m file and add the following lines of code in “viewDidLoad” method.

NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.google.com"];

	NSURLRequest *requestObj = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:URL];

	[WView loadRequest:requestObj];

3) As we will be making this class as the delegate for UIWebView so add the delegate method, as shown below, which is called when UIWebView finishes loading of content.

- (void)webViewDidFinishLoad:(UIWebView *)webView
{
	NSLog(@"finished download");
}

4) Now open webViewController.xib for adding objects to view and making connections as shown in figure below.

In the above xib we have added

a) A UIWebView which will show the web content.

b) 4 Buttons

(i) Back- for moving back to previous page in back-forward list. Connected to action “goBack” of UIWebView as shown.

(ii) Forward- for moving to next page in back-forward list. Connected to action “goForward” of UIWebView as shown.

(iii) Stop- to stop loading of request. Connected to action “stopLoading” of UIWebView as shown.

(iv) Reload- to reload the request. Connected to action “reload” of UIWebView as shown.

c) A Label saying “How to use UIWebView” which you may or may not add.

5) Connect the outlet WView to UIWebView. Also make the class as a delegate for UIWebView by making connection between delegate and File’s Owner.

6) Save, Build and Run the Project.

7) Output is as shown below.