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PrestoDoctor / react-native-browser

Full-featured web browser module for React Native apps, based on TOWebViewController
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non-modal #4

Open cmsheffield opened 8 years ago

cmsheffield commented 8 years ago

Hi,

Is there any way to open the browser in a non-modal view? For example, I would like to just have the browser be my main view in my react-native app. Is there any way to just do something like:

??

Thanks.

mfkp commented 8 years ago

Are you looking for something like this? https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/webview.html

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Hi,

Is there any way to open the browser in a non-modal view? For example, I would like to just have the browser be my main view in my react-native app. Is there any way to just do something like:

??

Thanks.

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cmsheffield commented 8 years ago

Tried that. :-)

The reason I'm trying the react-native-browser is because it was recommended as an alternative solution to react native's own WebView, which seems to take longer loading pages initially. And I have confirmed that react-native-browser seems to load pages slightly faster. So I was hoping to make it the main view of the app, just like I can with WebView. Either that or be able to hide all controls, including the navigation bar.

I know it seems like kind of a strange request. My company is working on a web app using React, but there are certain issues we're having on the iPad when running our app in Safari. We're hoping to get around some of those issues by creating a native app with an embedded web view.

Thanks for the quick response, btw.

mfkp commented 8 years ago

Theoretically it should be possible.

According to the Readme of the TOWebViewController: https://github.com/TimOliver/TOWebViewController#presenting-as-a-modal-dialog

It can either be presented as a modal (which is done in this RN plugin), or pushed onto the navigation stack. The only had part is that RN doesn't use the iOS UINavigationController, since they've implemented their own.

There might be a more lightweight iOS native component that you could substitute in if you don't need all the controls and navigation bar.

mfkp commented 8 years ago

You might even be able to write something to wrap the newer WKWebView which would be even better for performance, if you're targeting iOS8+