With the larger attack surface WebView brings to Android, it’s not just about whether an app will crash or content won’t render, it’s also about security.

Android System WebView is a part of the Android operating system that offers app developers a built-in browser inside apps to display web content.

Google says this is a “complete overhaul” of the Android WebView API, bringing the same rendering engine and software stack that powers Chrome to app developers targeting Android 4.4 KitKat.

Enhance your Android apps with content from external websites, using WebViews - and ensure this content looks good across a range of screen configurations.

A leading US academic will shortly publish a paper highlighting potential security problems with the WebView platform, the coding system used to create many of the most popular Google Android apps.

A Google engineer explained that Android 10 uses a new implementation called 'Trichrome': "Chrome is no longer used as a WebView implementation in Q+.

Meta has been developing its own Chromium-based WebView for Android for a few years and has now started rolling it out to users of its Facebook app. The new WebView, which has not been open ...

Facebook opens pages in its own in-app browser, which is powered by the Android System WebView. The main Facebook app is soon changing ...