Reuse UIWebView not good practice?

[matzino]

Hej folks,

I had made my first steps in iphone-programming and a lot of time I use a UIWebView. Today I found this entry on StackOverflow

Reused UIWebView showing previous loaded content for a brief second on iPhone - Stack Overflow
(The Answer from Roi)

And I wonder that an "Apple Developer" say that UIWebView is not ment to be reused. I'm not believe anything that can find in the www, but this make me thoughtful...

Have anyone arguments why reusing is not a good practice or the other way round?

Thanks in advance...

greetz matzino

[dany_dev]

ehm.....if you haven't any particular problem, just reuse, if you see some problems, release it and alloc\init a new UIWebView.....

However I think that can be problems related only to cache....

[matzino]

The only Problem I had is that the old content is shown for a short period of time till the new content is loaded. But that I had already solved

So on I will reusing UIWebViews in future ...

greetz matzino

[MattW]

I always reuse my UIWebView because shutting the instance down causes a leak somewhere in iOS - it's not huge (20K or so, if memory serves), but it's annoying.

[SundialSoft]

Originally Posted by matzino

Hej folks,

I had made my first steps in iphone-programming and a lot of time I use a UIWebView. Today I found this entry on StackOverflow

Reused UIWebView showing previous loaded content for a brief second on iPhone - Stack Overflow
(The Answer from Roi)

And I wonder that an "Apple Developer" say that UIWebView is not ment to be reused. I'm not believe anything that can find in the www, but this make me thoughtful...

Have anyone arguments why reusing is not a good practice or the other way round?

Thanks in advance...

greetz matzino

Hi Matzino, I agree with the person above, reuse your webview to cut down on leaks. There are lots of posts discussing use of webviews to minimise leaks. I only have one webview and use it wherever required.