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