Automatically Refresh Website Content in iOS Webview App: Simple Steps and WebViewGold for Easy Integration

In today’s fast-paced world, users have high expectations when it comes to app experiences. When it comes to webview apps, users expect seamless browsing experiences, where content loads quickly and automatically refreshes when they return to the app from the background.

As an iOS app developer, it’s essential to ensure that your app meets these expectations. In this article, we’ll discuss how to automatically refresh website content of an iOS webview app after the app goes back from the background to foreground.

But first, let’s talk about WebViewGold for iOS, a solution that can make this process much more manageable. WebViewGold for iOS is a powerful tool for creating high-quality webview apps for iOS. It comes with many useful features, including the ability to automatically refresh website content when the app comes back to the foreground.

To activate this feature, all you need to do is set “autoRefreshEnabled” to true in Config.swift. This will automatically refresh the webview content when the app returns from the background.

But if you’re not using WebViewGold, don’t worry. You can still achieve the same result by following the steps below:

Step 1: Add the App Delegate Method

To automatically refresh the website content, we need to add an app delegate method that will be called when the app comes back to the foreground.

Add the following code to your app delegate file:

func applicationDidBecomeActive(_ application: UIApplication) { // Code to refresh the webview content }

This code will be executed when the app becomes active again after being in the background.

Step 2: Get a Reference to the Webview

To refresh the webview content, we need to get a reference to the webview object in our app.

Add the following code to your view controller file:

var webView: UIWebView! override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad()// Code to initialize the webview webView = UIWebView(frame: self.view.bounds) self.view.addSubview(webView) }

This code initializes the webview and adds it to the view hierarchy.

Step 3: Refresh the Webview Content

Now that we have a reference to the webview object, we can refresh its content when the app becomes active again.

Add the following code to your app delegate file:

func applicationDidBecomeActive(_ application: UIApplication) { // Code to refresh the webview content webView.reload() }

This code calls the “reload” method of the webview object, which reloads the current page.

And that’s it! With these simple steps, you can ensure that your iOS webview app automatically refreshes its content when the app comes back to the foreground. And if you’re using WebViewGold for iOS, you can make this process even easier by simply activating the “autoRefreshEnabled” feature in Config.swift.