tvOS load website URL

Question

I am new in tvOS application. i am trying to integrate custom application with TVML & TVJS. I created a page and add banner in it. My requirement is to load a webpage inside that application. I tried different methods to load a webpage using that application.js file but fails. Please help me how to load a webpage using TVML and TVJS.

Answer 1

If I understood you correctly, you need to use UIWebView class but you cannot find it in the tvOS SDK (because it was removed). But you can use this class as a "private API class" (you can create an instance of this class and call methods for it, because you have enough information about UIWebView). It can be hard for you. If so, you can use some libraries (such as https://github.com/jvanakker/tvOSBrowser) that using the private API to make UIWebView available in the tvOS.

Answer 2

I think you might have a hard time on getting a web browser on the TV app store, as I think apple does really see people browsing on the apple tv.

Depends on your use case,

if you are only trying to display a page, you might able to use some of the online url to picture services like https://urlbox.io/docs, or build your own server using existing browser features. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLIFrameElement/getScreenshot

If you are getting users to another services, the correct way to do is with deep link, which you can learn more about here. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2017/246/

or if you are trying to transfer the view into sales, displaying a QR code is the way to go. as iOS 11 makes QR Code scanning a standard, it will be very easy for your users to scan the code. https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-use-ios-11s-hidden-qr-code-reader/