Android apps depend on the ability to render web content. Because WebView also depends on developers release apps that deal with this in a secure manner, users are at their mercy.

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.

It's the app that provides Chrome-like browser rendering within apps, and according to developers and end users, many of the errors people are seeing indicate the problem resides there.

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. Doing so eliminates the need to redirect users to ...

Google releases tools to debug WebView in beta, Udacity provides developer training for AI at the edge, DataStax previews build of Kong with Astra support ...

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.

Google has released Android 12 Developer Preview 2.1 with a fix for a WebView bug that led to some apps crashing.

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 ...