Web App in Tvos

Web app in tvOS

EDIT: Before people keeps downvoting, I'm going to make clear that the UIWebView is present on the apple TV, but it's PROHIBITED to use it, so, the only real way of loading web apps on an apple TV is creating them with TVML and TVJS

If you want to use an UIWebView (as proof of concept) you can do this:

Objective-c

Class webviewClass = NSClassFromString(@"UIWebView");
id webview = [[webviewClass alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.frame];
NSURL * url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"https://www.google.com"];
NSURLRequest * request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webview loadRequest:request];
[self.view addSubview:webview];

swift

let webViewClass : AnyObject.Type = NSClassFromString("UIWebView")!
let webViewObject : NSObject.Type = webViewClass as! NSObject.Type
let webview: AnyObject = webViewObject.init()
let url = NSURL(string: "https://www.google.com")
let request = NSURLRequest(URL: url!)
webview.loadRequest(request)
let uiview = webview as! UIView
uiview.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, view.frame.width, view.frame.height)
view.addSubview(uiview)

MAGIC!!! The UIWebView is there! But you can't iteract with it, just show web pages or web content.

UPDATE! I've found that there is a lot of tvOS browsers on github based on https://github.com/steventroughtonsmith/tvOSBrowser, but most of them require tweaking Availability.h on Xcode app. I've found a fork that uses my approach, so it doesn't require tweaking Availability.h https://github.com/FabioSpacagna/tvOSBrowser
They add basic support for navigating, like scroll and a cursor

I don't think apple will approve apps using UIWebView as it's marked as prohibited, you'll have to learn TVML and TVJS instead.

Fetch Web HTML data in tvOS

Just make the HTTP request directly using NSURLSession. You'll get the HTML back as NSData and can parse it from there just like before. You should probably do the same in your iOS app: if you're not going to show the HTML to the user then there's no point in using something as heavyweight as a web view.

Can you develop web apps for Apple TV?

There is no web browser on the Apple TV, so you can't currently develop web applications for a non-jailbroken device. Same goes for native applications.

Jailbroken Apple TVs are another story, but it sounds like that isn't your target here.

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