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.

Android WebView now supports Google Pay for in-app payments, enhancing the shopping experience on Android. Google Play Services v25.18.30 enables Google Pay within Android WebView. Developers need ...

There’s the app itself, there are the Android subsystems, there are the apps that depend on WebView, there are the developers who might make use of JavaScript, which then depends on a third ...

More specifically, Android 15 is locking part of the trichrome library that WebView uses into memory. When app processes are locked into memory, the OS deprioritizes killing them when it needs to ...

For Chrome to handle WebView rendering, you'll need to be on v51 or higher with Android 7.0. The default behavior in this instance will be for the Chrome APK on your device to render Android ...

Google finally explains why it's wiping its hands clean of patches for flaws in WebView running on Android 4.3 and below - and what users should do to stay safe.

The feature was added in Android Oreo (8.0) but was not turned on by default, as developers specifically had to enable it in each app where they used a WebView component. Safe Browsing added to ...

The WebView platform, Infosecurity notes, is reportedly used in more than 80% of the most 20 popular apps for the Android smartphone and tablet computer operating system, since it allows app coders to ...