Using UIWebView to display select document types

 In addition to HTML content, UIWebView can display specific document types.

iPhone OS 2.2.1 supports the following document types:

Excel (.xls)

Keynote (.key.zip)

Numbers (.numbers.zip)

Pages (.pages.zip)

PDF (.pdf)

Powerpoint (.ppt)

Word (.doc)

 

Listing 1: Loading a document into a UIWebView.

 

Listing 1: Loading a document into a UIWebView.

-(void)loadDocument:(NSString*)documentName inView:(UIWebView*)webView
{
    NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:documentName ofType:nil];
    NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:path];
    NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
    [webView loadRequest:request];
}

// Calling -loadDocument:inView:
[self loadDocument:@"mydocument.rtfd.zip" inView:self.myWebview];