Wondering what Android System WebView is and whether it's safe to disable it? Our quick primer on Android System WebView should hopefully clear up your doubts.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

That was the exact scenario that faced Android users when the latest Chrome 79 version started rolling out, causing a specific set of apps to lose their data.

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.

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.

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

Android has long provided a way for developers to show web content in apps without implementing a full browser with WebView, but the nature of this component has changed a lot over the years. It ...