UIWebView is depreciating

[Daxa Varsani]

As a part of Image editor, custom image view, iOS dependent code is using UIWebView. 
but as mentioned in image, UIWebView will be deprecated by December 2020. Alternative is WKWebView. but not able to get it working after using WKWebView as expected.

[Ramya Soundar Rajan]

Hi Daxa Varsani, 

 

Greetings from Syncfusion. 

 

We would like to let you know that the reported issue “Deprecated API Usage” occurred since having the usage of UIWebView in your application and similar that of tracked records experience, we suggest to use below link to resolve this. 

 

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/xamarin/uiwebview-deprecation-xamarin-forms/ 

 

Regards, 

Ramya S 

[Daxa Varsani]

Yes, I know that I have changed UIWebView at all other places. But in syncfusion github repo for custom image view is using UIWebView. took reference from here.

https://github.com/syncfusion/xamarin-demos/blob/master/iOS/SampleBrowser/Samples/ImageEditor/ImageEditorCustomView.cs

[Ramya Soundar Rajan]

Hi Daxa Varsani, 

 

The reported problem will be resolved in our upcoming volume 2 SP1 release which is expected to be rolled at the mid of August 2020. We appreciate your patience until then.  

 

Regards, 

Ramya S 

[Ramya Soundar Rajan]

Hi Daxa Varsani,  

 

We would like to inform you that we have used the UIWebView to load a svg image as custom view using custom renderer. On further analysis, we have some framework level problems when using WkWebView and we are analyzing further on this. Meanwhile you can resolve this problem by loading a png format in the sample browser instead of svg image. In ImageEditorCustomView class AddImage method use UIImageView instead of CustomWebView to resolve this problem. Please refer the below link to load a png image as custom view. 

 

https://help.syncfusion.com/xamarin-ios/sfimageeditor/customview#customview 

 

Can you please replace the following file (ImageEditorCustomView.cs) in the SfImageEditor sample browser to resolve this problem. 

 

https://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/directtrac/general/ze/ImageEditorCustomView-Modified768573779 

 

Regards, 

Ramya S 

[Daxa Varsani]

Hi Ramya S.,

can you please let me know when the fix for framework level problems while using WkWebView will be released? because I don't want to use PNGs. I want to use SVGs.

[Ramya Soundar Rajan]

Hi Daxa Varsani,  

 

Due to technical blocks we need some more time to analyze in our side. We will update the details on or before August 25,2020. 

 

Regards, 

Ramya S 

[Ramya Soundar Rajan]

Hi Daxa Varsani, 

 

Currently we are facing issue while loading an image or SVG file through WkWebView. So, we raised a query in the Xamarin forum. Please check the below forum link. 

 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63340297/wkwebview-content-is-not-centered-in-ios  

 

We will change our sample browser once we got generic solution and include this our upcoming volume 3 release which is expected to be rolled out on end of September 2020. 

 

Regards, 

Ramya S 

[Daxa Varsani]

Hi Ramya,

is there any update on releasing the fix for this issue?

[Ramya Soundar Rajan]

Hi Daxa Varsani, 

  

Sorry for the inconvenience caused. 

  

We are facing issue when loading the SVG as custom view, position is not updated properly. It’s a framework level issue. So, we raised a query in the Xamarin forum for framework level solution, please find the link below.  

  

Link: https://github.com/xamarin/Xamarin.Forms/issues/12165 

   

We will let you know once we got generic solution to achieve your requirement. Meanwhile you can use the .png image as custom view as we informed earlier. 

 

Regards, 

Ramya S