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.

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.

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.

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.

Enhance your Android apps with content from external websites, using WebViews - and ensure this content looks good across a range of screen configurations.

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 ...

At the end of last week, Google pushed an update to its Android System Webview service through Google Play that seems to be causing some pretty major issues on a number of handsets. At least, that ...

With the release of Android 5.0, Google separated the WebView component of their browser out into an easily updateable component. Google has today announced that from today, they have launched a ...