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ha-ios-webview

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The WKWebView frontend that renders the Home Assistant web UI. Use when working on WebViewController and its WebViewController+*.swift extensions, the JavaScript external message bus, custom URL schemes, or deep links into the frontend.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/home-assistant/iOS/blob/HEAD/.agents/skills/ha-ios-webview/SKILL.md

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The WKWebView Frontend

The primary iOS UI is a WKWebView (WebViewController) that renders the Home Assistant web frontend; native Swift code wraps it with platform integrations. WebViewController functionality is spread across many WebViewController+*.swift extension files (navigation, gestures, alerts, URL loading, etc.). Native features communicate with the web UI via a JavaScript message bus handled by WebViewExternalMessageHandler (messages typed as WebViewExternalBusMessage / WebViewExternalBusOutgoingMessage in Sources/App/Frontend/ExternalMessageBus/) and custom URL schemes / deep links defined in AppConstants.