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diff --git a/docs/overview/ios.rst b/docs/overview/ios.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a16e0676bd --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/overview/ios.rst @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Firefox for iOS +=============== + +Firefox iOS is built natively for iOS, and doesn`t use Gecko. + +Due to Apple`s restrictions for browsers on iOS, WKWebKit is how users will interact with the web, +and how developers interact with web elements. The chrome around WKWebKit, however, is built in +Swift. UI wise, it is a combination of UIKit and SwiftUI; due to supporting n-2 iOS versions, the +team is limited from moving over to SwiftUI fully. + +Firefox uses several external Mozilla packages, namely: + +* Mozilla Rust Components for various Rust based application components such as FXAClient, Nimbus, etc. +* Glean SDK for telemetry +* Telemetry (deprecated; not actively used, but not fully removed yet) + +Documentation can be found in the project `wiki <https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-ios/wiki>`_. + +WKWebView +--------- + +WKWebView is part of Apple`s WebKit framework. It supports a complete web browsing experience, +rendering HTML, CSS, and JavaScrip content alongside an app`s native views. It can also be thought +of as an API to help render web pages on Apple platforms. For more information on WKWebView itself, +please see `Apple's documentation <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview>`_. |