Cordova "Apple will stop accepting submissions of apps that use UIWebView" warning when submitting to app store

[sts-ryan-holton]

Bug Report

Problem

I'm building a hybrid app for both iOS and Android. The app primarily is built using Nuxt JS, a Javascript based Vue JS framework, along with Vuetify JS. I'm using Cordova 8.0.0 currently to build and compile my app and have recently submitted our first ever app to the app store for review, I have recieved back a depreciation warning and am concerned that this isn't going to be fixed in Cordova?

ITMS-90809: Deprecated API Usage - Apple will stop accepting submissions of apps that use UIWebView APIs . See https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview for more information.

I'm using very few Cordova plugins, and am wondering whether this issue has been addressed, or is related to one of my Cordova based plugins listed below.

What is expected to happen?

The depreciation warning shouldn't appear when submitting to the app store from a Cordova project.

What does actually happen?

The warning appears.

Information

NPM version: 6.10.2
Node version: 10.13.0
Xcode: 10.3

I'm building for iOS 12.4, with a deployment target of 10.0

I'm using the following Cordova plugins and their versions:

"dependencies": {
        "cordova-android": "^7.1.4",
        "cordova-ios": "^4.5.5",
        "cordova-plugin-actionsheet": "^2.3.3",
        "cordova-plugin-app-event": "^1.2.1",
        "cordova-plugin-background-mode": "^0.7.3",
        "cordova-plugin-badge": "^0.8.8",
        "cordova-plugin-console": "^1.1.0",
        "cordova-plugin-device": "^2.0.3",
        "cordova-plugin-local-notification": "git+https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-local-notifications.git",
        "cordova-plugin-native-keyboard": "^2.0.3",
        "cordova-plugin-powermanagement-orig": "git+https://github.com/boltex/cordova-plugin-powermanagement.git",
        "cordova-plugin-whitelist": "^1.3.3"
    }

I'm using both iOS and Android for building, I'm using Nuxt JS 2.9.2

Command or Code

The commands used to build the app are as follows:

"scripts": {
    "dev": "nuxt",
    "build": "nuxt build",
    "start": "nuxt start",
    "generate": "NODE_ENV=production nuxt generate",
    "cordova-ios": "NODE_ENV=production npm run build-spa && npm run replace-relative-paths && npm run copy-cordova && npm run run-ios;",
    "cordova-android": "NODE_ENV=production npm run build-spa && npm run replace-relative-paths && npm run copy-cordova && npm run run-android;",
    "cordova-browser": "NODE_ENV=production npm run build-spa && npm run replace-relative-paths && npm run copy-cordova && npm run run-browser;",
    "build-spa": "nuxt build --spa",
    "replace-relative-paths": "replace '/nuxtfiles/' 'nuxtfiles/' dist --recursive && replace '/assets/' 'nuxtfiles/' dist --recursive && replace '(href|src|\"href\"|\"src\")=\"/' '$1=\"../' dist --recursive && replace '(href|src|\"href\"|\"src\"):\"/' '$1:\"../' dist --recursive",
    "copy-cordova": "cp -R dist/* cordova/www/",
    "clear-cordova": "rm -R cordova/www/*",
    "run-ios": "cd cordova && cordova run ios --buildFlag='-UseModernBuildSystem=0' --target='iPhone-X, 12.2'",
    "run-android": "cd cordova && cordova run android",
    "run-browser": "cd cordova && cordova run browser"
  }

Environment, Platform, Device

Version information

Checklist

• I searched for existing GitHub issues
• I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• I included all the necessary information above

[timbru31]

The discussion is happening here: apache/cordova-ios#661 - and currently it is just a warning :)