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 ...

The Android operating system is home to countless features, be it useful utilitarian toggles or gimmicky customization tweaks. Thanks to this bucket load of options, an Android phone can do several ...

Android 15 Developer Preview 1 is locking an important working component of the Android System WebView into memory. This will prevent the Android system from killing the process and restarting it ...

If you’ve ever scrolled through the list of installed apps on your Android phone, you may have come across Android System WebView. On most devices, it’s a pre-installed app that receives regular ...

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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 ...

Almost a billion users are still running Android 4.3, Jelly Bean, or earlier, but Google will no longer be developing security patches for Android's built-in Web browser WebView. Fortunately, that ...