Android developers can give the company feedback, based on what they are seeing in their own apps that use WebView, as well as based on an APIs they want to try. This has been a long time coming.

With the larger attack surface WebView brings to Android, it’s not just about whether an app will crash or content won’t render, it’s also about security.

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.

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.

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.

Following Android users worldwide experiencing repeated app crashes last month, Google today released an explanation behind what went wrong and how future WebView problems will be remedied. This ...

Android users seeing constant app crashing can update the Android System WebView component and Google Chrome to fix the problem ...

Android System WebView is an essential part of the Android OS that lets apps display web content without starting a separate web browser app.