Well I have been asked this a few times and I can see how it would be a very helpful addition to the UIWebView’s feature set. What I am talking about is adding the ability to intercept the event generated when a user selects a link in a webpage being displayed with a UIWebView, this will then allow you to perform any action that you want. When would you use this I hear you say? Well one person asked me if I knew how to append the users current location onto all HTTP requests? and another just wanted to know how to perform custom actions from an embedded... 

Well I needed a way to get a formatted date string in NSString format so I dug around and came up with the following function. -(NSString *) dateInFormat:(NSString*) stringFormat { char buffer[80]; const char *format = [stringFormat UTF8String]; time_t rawtime; struct tm * timeinfo; time(&rawtime); timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime); strftime(buffer, 80, format, timeinfo); return [NSString stringWithCString:buffer encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; } What it does it it takes a NSString as input with set specifications (checkout http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man3/strftime.3.html... 

Just letting everyone know that the source files for the first three tutorials are now available at the bottom of each tutorial. There has also been some minor updates to some of the tutorials to make them easier to understand. Keep your eyes out for more tips and tutorials coming soon! Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.  Read More →

I thought i would make this a separate post to the Build your very own Web Browser! tutorial as it can be used for many different purposes and it took me a bit to figure it out. For my example I am going to be trying to use a file in my local bundle in a UIWebView, my file is going to be called “sample.jpg” and it will be in the root folder of my project, this will work for any folder though. I will show you the code and then I will explain it. NSString *imagePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] resourcePath]; imagePath = [imagePath stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"/"...