Launching phone/email/map links in WKWebView

Question

KINWebBrowser is an open source web browser module for iOS apps. I recently upgraded KINWebBrowser to use WKWebView to begin phasing out UIWebView. This yields significant improvements, but:

Problem: WKWebView does not enable users to launch links containing URLs for phone numbers, email address, maps, etc.

How can I configure a WKWebView to launch the standard iOS behaviors for these alternate URLs when launched as links from the displayed page?

All of the code is available here

More info on WKWebKit

See the issue on the KINWebBrowser GitHub here

Answer 1

I was able to get it to work for the Google Maps link (which appears to be related to the target="_blank") and for the tel: scheme by adding this function to your KINWebBrowserViewController.m

- (void)webView:(WKWebView *)webView decidePolicyForNavigationAction:(WKNavigationAction *)navigationAction decisionHandler:(void (^)(WKNavigationActionPolicy))decisionHandler
{
    if(webView != self.wkWebView) {
        decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyAllow);
        return;
    }

    UIApplication *app = [UIApplication sharedApplication];
    NSURL         *url = navigationAction.request.URL;

    if (!navigationAction.targetFrame) {
        if ([app canOpenURL:url]) {
            [app openURL:url];
            decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyCancel);
            return;
        }
    }
    if ([url.scheme isEqualToString:@"tel"])
    {
        if ([app canOpenURL:url])
        {
            [app openURL:url];
            decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyCancel);
            return;
        }
    }
    decisionHandler(WKNavigationActionPolicyAllow);
}