The just-released and latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 4.4 KitKat, has made a big change to the WebView component: it is now powered by Chromium. Google says this is a ...

Google has finally explained why it's not going to develop its own patches for WebView for Android versions 4.3 and earlier, even though it could leave over 930 million Android devices exposed to ...

In the past couple of days, Android users found themselves in a rather frustrating situation with random applications crashing when links were opened. It turns out the issue was Android System WebView ...

Google announced earlier this week plans to enable Safe Browsing support for the Android WebView component, a stripped-down browser that comes with all Android versions. The Safe Browsing API is a ...

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Android's WebView component provoked a widespread crash last month that caused dozens of apps to stop running, including Gmail, Google Pay and several banking apps ...

Android 5.0 Lollipop, set to be released in November, fixes a design issue in Android KitKat that left the OS exposed to newly-disclosed bugs in the Chromium project. Google has quietly introduced a ...

Google today announced that it’s launching a beta channel or Android WebView, the API many apps use to display webpages. Google noted that with Android 5.0 Lollipop, it now “has the ability to update ...