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H. DuttInterprocess Communication with macOShttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7045-5_9

9. IPC Between Native and Web Apps

Hem Dutt1  
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North Delhi, Delhi, India
 

Often, during the development of an iOS- or macOS-based application, we come across requirements where the app needs to interact in some way with a web page that is being loaded within the app itself. These requirements could be because that you already have a feature developed on the Web which you want to reuse, or you want to implement a cross-platform feature using a web environment.

Apple provides a WKWebView class to interact with web apps from within the application. A WKWebView object is a ...

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