The Future of the iOS WebView in Adobe PhoneGap
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1 min readAug 9, 2018
With the announcement of the iOS 12 beta SDK at Apple’s WWDC 2018, came the news that UIWebView, the webview originally bundled with the first iOS SDK, has been deprecated. What this means for iOS developers is that sometime in the future, Apple will remove UIWebView from their SDK, and PhoneGap developers should migrate to using the WKWebView component starting right now.
Apache Cordova powers Adobe PhoneGap, and there are several upcoming changes that are relevant to all PhoneGap developers, namely the plan to transition to using the WKWebView component.
Read more at the Apache Cordova Blog: “Breaking changes coming to the iOS WebView in Apache Cordova”.
