UniWebView

# Messaging System

You can send a message from the web view to UniWebView. It helps you implement a way to "control" your game from the web page.

UniWebView inspects all links starts from uniwebview:// by default. That means if your user taps a link starting with "uniwebview", an OnMessageReceived event will be raised with a UniWebViewMessage as its parameter.

If you have this on your page:

<a href="uniwebview://action?key=value&anotherKey=anotherValue">Tap Me</a>

And you have this event listener in Unity:

webView.OnMessageReceived += (view, message) => {
    print(message.RawMessage);
};

When the link is tapped, "uniwebview://action?key=value&anotherKey=anotherValue" will be printed.

UniWebView parses the input and pass it to you in the OnMessageReceived event, as the message parameter. In the example above, you have:

message.Scheme // "uniwebview"
message.Path   // "action"
message.Args   // {"key": value, "anotherKey": "anotherValue"}

DUPLICATED KEY

If you are using the same key in the URL query, UniWebViewMessage will parse them to the same key as well, with the values concatenated by a comma. For example, a URL like uniwebview://action?key=1&key=2 will be parsed to a message with Args as {"key": "1,2"}.

NAVIGATION

Besides of an HTML link, a location.href JavaScript will also send a message to UniWebView and trigger the event. The code below is identical to example above:

location.href = "uniwebview://action?key=value&anotherKey=anotherValue";

# Adding your own scheme

By default, "uniwebview" is inspected in UniWebView Messaging System. You can also add your own URL schemes. Call AddUrlScheme with the one you need:

// Start to inspect all `myscheme://` URLs.
webView.AddUrlScheme("myscheme");

A tricky thing here is, you can even set http and https as the scheme. It will prevent all loading of web resources. A use case is that you do not want your user to leave the current page: first load your page, then, in the OnPageFinished event, disable all navigating by adding the "http(s)" scheme:

webView.Load("https://yourpage.com");

webView.OnPageFinished += (view, statusCode, url) => {
    webView.AddUrlScheme("http");
    webView.AddUrlScheme("https");

    // Now your user will not be able to navigate to other pages hosted on HTTP or HTTPS.
};

Limitation

The messaging system is built on URL and Unity's message sender. It means you cannot send the unlimited size of data at once. The allowed max length of a URL is different from devices and system versions. But a safe length is ~16KB for a URL. If you have something huge to send from the web page to Unity and encountered some problems, it would be better to split them into smaller pieces.

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