WKWebView
Apple's modern iOS framework component used to display interactive web content natively within a mobile application.
What it is
WKWebView is the underlying rendering engine used by iOS to load HTML, CSS, and JavaScript inside a native app shell. It replaces the older, slower UIWebView. It is the crucial technology that makes hybrid app frameworks like Capacitor and Cordova function, acting as the invisible browser window that runs the web code.
When you would use it
You interact with WKWebView configuration when building hybrid mobile apps and needing to optimize web rendering performance or manage security policies for local web assets.
Common operations
- Displaying an external webpage securely within a native iOS application.
- Powering the entire user interface of a hybrid HTML/JS mobile app.