webview - Swift Open Link in Safari

Question

I am currently opening the link in my app in a WebView, but I'm looking for an option to open the link in Safari instead.

Answer 1

It's not "baked in to Swift", but you can use standard UIKit methods to do it. Take a look at UIApplication's openUrl(_:) (deprecated) and open(_:options:completionHandler:).

Swift 4 + Swift 5 (iOS 10 and above)

guard let url = URL(string: "https://stackoverflow.com") else { return }
UIApplication.shared.open(url)

Swift 3 (iOS 9 and below)

guard let url = URL(string: "https://stackoverflow.com") else { return }
UIApplication.shared.openURL(url)

Swift 2.2

guard let url = URL(string: "https://stackoverflow.com") else { return }
UIApplication.sharedApplication().openURL(url)