How to use an UIWebView to show small offline html documents?

Question

Could I ship my app with an html document and display this using a UIWebView? How hard is this to use?

Is it possible to have a small frame with the UIWebView inside, or does it always take up the whole screen? And can I get rid of all those controls, so the UIWebView works like an advanced UILabel or UITextView?

Answer 1

Yes; it's easy; you can have a small embedded webview; yes, a naked web view has no controls.

In your loadView or viewDidLoad method:

UIWebView *webview = [[UIWebView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(...)];
[self.view addSubview:webview];
NSURL *url = [[NSBundle mainBundle] URLForResource:@"foo" withExtension:@"html"];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[webview loadRequest:request];
[webview release];

This will load a foo.html file that you add to your project as a resource. Alternatively, you can use the loadHTMLString:baseURL: if you want to build up the HTML in code.