Remove UIWebView and use WKWebView to support AppStore

[sagrawal31]

I'm not sure if this plugin is maintained or not because seems the author is not active for a long time.

Description

Apple stopped accepting new apps which uses UIWebView from April 2020 while the existing apps have to upgrade to use WKWebView by Dec 2020 and this plugin uses UIWebView.

So using this plugin, it's not possible to push new app on AppStore.

• https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=12232019b
• https://ionicframework.com/blog/understanding-itms-90809-uiwebview-api-deprecation/

While the https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-inappbrowser/issues/668 is already upgraded to use WKWebView.

[etabard]

Hi @sagrawal31 , thanks for the heads up !

This plugin is not maintained anymore as I switched to react-native. Let me know if you are interested in maintaining it :)

Cheers

[sagrawal31]

Hi, @etabard Thanks for the very prompt reply! I appreciate that you at least replied and updated, unlike the other authors.

Let me know if you are interested in maintaining it

I would be very much happy to maintain it but time constraint is my biggest concern so not really sure if I can be very active in terms of fixing the bugs & improving the plugin. But thanks for the proposal. I'll surely ping you in future if I can manage this plugin.

Well, I forked this last year and did some improvements https://github.com/wizpanda/cordova-plugin-overappbrowser 😄

Another thing. Since you spent your valuable time to reply, please manage to put a "not maintained" banner in the README. Or for quickest option, archive this repository so GitHub will take care of it.

This would help future developers who try to use this plugin and they will know in advance that this is not being maintained.

Thanks again, Emmanuel!

[sagrawal31]

By the way, I raised an issue in cordova-plugin-inappbrowser plugin if they can pick the core feature of positioning the webview.

[etabard]

Done, I updated the README :-)