Application Transport Security deadline for iOS apps

[Monte Goulding]

LiveCode does use UIWebView. I can’t speak for the team but I would think it’s unlikely we would look at altering that until support for iOS 7 is dropped. Down the track with WKWebView having a common api on Mac 10.10 and iOS 8.0 it would make sense to share code when they are our minimum supported platforms.

> On 12 Jul 2016, at 11:29 AM, Colin Holgate <colinholgate at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I needed to use WKWebView not long ago, and started by making a native app test. As far as I could tell Xcode still uses UIWebView for Objective-C projects. I did find a Swift test project, and was able to prove how great WKWebView is.
> 
> WKWebView requires iOS 8 or later, I think LiveCode still supports further back, doesn’t it? Also, do iOS widgets use Objective-C rather than Swift?
> 
> So, there are a couple of reasons to think that LiveCode is using UIWebView, but hopefully I’m wrong about that.
> 
> WKWebView performs a lot better, and also solves a couple of security related sound issues, that cannot be worked around using UIWebView.
> 
> 
>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:37 PM, jameshale <james at thehales.id.au> wrote:
>> 
>> According to an article on TechRepublic (
>> http://www.how-to-migrate-to-https-using-app-transport-security-when-developing-ios-apps
>> <http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-migrate-to-https-using-app-transport-security-when-developing-ios-apps/> 
>> )
>> 
>> "If you're using WKWebView, an arbitrary connection will be allowed for
>> websites that are not HTTPS-enabled."
>> 
>> So arbitrary connections are ok in the Xcode/Swift world.
>> Does the browser widget use a WKWebView on iOS?
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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