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Pitfalls in WKWebView (Part 1)

WKWebView is the most flexible and modern framework of the iOS web engine. So if you need to show web sites, interact with these, customize the UI or the web sites etc, WKWebView is the way to go. Even though WKWebView has a rich feature set and provides almost everything you would ever need, it [ ]

Customize the contextual menu of WKWebView on macOS

Under iOS the WKWebView class provides a delegate method which allows to customize the contextual menu of the web engine (the menu which opens when long-pressing a link). Unfortunately under macOS the WKWebView does not provide such a method for its contextual menu. This article explains how you can customize the contextual menu of WKWebView [ ]

„Classic“ MapKit on watchOS

If you want to show a native map view within your watchOS App you have currently two options: using either the „classic“ watchOS Interface elements or SwiftUI. SwiftUI is relatively new and was introduced with watchOS 7 on the Apple Watch (and with iOS 14 on the iPhone/iPad). SwiftUI is still a work in progress, [ ]

Hello World! – Introduction

This blog is all about developing apps and applications for the iOS platform (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), watchOS (Apple Watch) and the macOS (Mac). The blog posts will usually use Swift as programming language for all code samples. Most topics are based on my own experiences and issues I encountered while developing my own Apps, [ ]