Simple Web View

I ran into a situation on the job where I needed to display some legal text.  This isn't uncommon in a corporate environment but the text they wanted to use was just huge.   It was really long and it needed to be in a place where other content was displayed.

After a few 30 minutes and figuring out that the legal text couldn't be paired down it dawned on me that we could link to the legal text AND put it in a place that could be easily changed as legal stuff tends to do.  So this was the perfect opportunity to play with the WebView, something that I had not crossed paths with, and thankfully, it turns out it is pretty easy to implement. 

Here are the steps

1. Create a new project.
2. Add a button to the Main view and add a seque.
3. Add a new Web view with the web view and nav button to segue back.
4. Add a web view controller
5. Add some code.

Here is the video....

Here is the code in the web view controller

//
//  WebViewController.swift
//  WebViewTest
//
//  Created by Chris Cantley on 6/25/15.
//  Copyright (c) 2015 Chris Cantley. All rights reserved.
//

import Foundation
import UIKit

class WebViewController: ViewController {
    
    @IBOutlet weak var webView: UIWebView!
    
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        
        //setup the URL
        let requestURL = NSURL(string: "http://www.google.com")
        
        //Setup the request with the URL inside it
        let request = NSURLRequest(URL: requestURL!)
        
        //Add the request into the web view
        webView.loadRequest(request)
        
    }
    
}

And here is a link to the project.