HybridWebView Custom Renderer
fixityhybrid is a Xamarin.Forms-based native wrapper for Web apps. It's being used for Fixity's iOS and Android apps.
This fork enhances David Britch's original sample here: Implementing a HybridWebView.
David's code demonstrated a cutom renderer for a 'HybridWebView' custom control, to enhance the platform-specific web controls to allow C# code to be invoked from JavaScript.
It has been enhanced to allow certain features for Android and iOS
Android
- Enabling Location Services and Camera permissions in the WebView
- Directly download PDFs and other files to local storage
- Properly route mailto: , tel: , sms: links
- Properly route Google Maps links
- Route external links to a new system browser
- Route internal links in the webview
- Enable 1-touch enabling of Location Services
- Splash Screen
- Toast messages
- Offline handling with offline.html
iOS
- Enabling Location Services and Camera permissions in the WebView
- Directly download PDFs and other files to local storage
- Properly route mailto: , tel: , sms: links
- Properly route Google Maps & Apple Maps links
- Route external links to a new system browser
- Route internal links in the webview
- Toast messages
- Offline handling with offline.html
UWP
- All of the above
TO DO
- Make Android's GPS detection modal --- don't load the website until they confirm OK.
- Make the website to load a constant (currently loads fixity.io)
- Check and test the Javascript bridge on both Android and iOS
- Ensure 2-way communication between Native app and Web app via JS bridge
- Let the JS bridge handle multiple actions (for example, Toast and Messagebox on native platforms)
- Look into pre-loading WiseJ resources to avoid download (speed)
- Handle Facebook login (does not work in Hybrid app)
Fork Author
Andrew Niese Fresh Software LLC for Fixity.io
Original Author
David Britch