If the auto-update apps feature isn’t enabled on your device, and you haven’t updated the Android System WebView app on your phone in a while, the very first thing you should do is update it ...

Google pins the problem on a “bug within Chrome & WebView’s experiment & configuration technology.” This caused “instability” in Android apps that use WebView to render web content that ...

Update (3/23 5:30 AM ET): Google's status page now gives the all clear, and instructs affected users to open the Play Store and download the latest update for WebView as well as Google Chrome to ...

Google Chrome to Replace WebView in Android 7.0 Nougat Thursday July 21, 2016 Written by tasneem The company enables Chrome WebView rendering in version 51 for smartphones running on Android Nougat.

Some apps were crashing for Android users, but Google has fixed it. The issue was due to a system component called Android System WebView that lets Android apps display web content.

A Google engineer explained that Android 10 uses a new implementation called 'Trichrome': "Chrome is no longer used as a WebView implementation in Q+.

On Friday morning, Android developers reliant on WebView and local storage began encountering an issue where their apps lost data after users updated to version 79 of WebView.

Now the Android maker is taking steps so that the incident won't happen again, even if it does accidentally push a buggy update again. Updates that bring bugs aren't that uncommon, just ask Microsoft.

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.