You may have come across an app called Android System WebView on your smartphone. It’s a piece of software that enables other apps on your Android device to display ...

A large number of Android users over the past few hours have been encountering continuous Gmail and other app shutdowns, with some finding that uninstalling Android System WebView will stop the ...

Update: Google has said that it has fixed the WebView bug. You should update the Android System WebView app and Google Chrome through the Google Play Store to resolve the issue. If you’re using an ...

In this week’s top stories: Chrome and WebView cause many Android apps to crash, Google launches WifiNanScan for developers to experiment, we settle whether the OnePlus 9 Pro is worth upgrading to ...

Google has detailed the reasons for last month’s spate of Android app crashes. A WebView configuration issue was the root cause. Google plans to improve its WebView and Chrome rollout measures to ...

An odd bug last month saw random Android apps crashing left and right for seemingly no reason at all. It was eventually and correctly traced to Android's WebView component and, fortunately, some have ...

9to5Google has reported that the Android System WebView component crashing Android users’ apps now has a permanent fix. On March 22 a lot of Android users were having problems with continuous crashes ...

It's not exactly uncommon for an update to sometimes break a perfectly working app but those have become rarer, especially for big, popular ones. When Google's own "invisible" components break that ...

PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 23: In this photo illustration, the logos of the applications, Google Maps, Google and Gmail are displayed on the screen of a tablet on October 23, 2018 in Paris, France. After ...

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