For the More Curious: WebView Updates

WebView is based on the Chromium open-source project. It shares the same rendering engine used by the Chrome for Android app, meaning pages should look and behave consistently across the two. (However, WebView does not have all the features Chrome for Android does. You can see a table comparing them at developer.chrome.com/​multidevice/​webview/​overview.)

Being based on Chromium means that WebView stays up to date on web standards and JavaScript. From a development perspective, one of the most exciting features is the support for remote debugging of WebView using Chrome DevTools (which can be enabled by calling WebView.setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled()).

As of Lollipop (Android 5.0), the Chromium layer of WebView is updated automatically from the Google Play Store. Users no longer wait for new releases of Android to receive security updates (and new features). More recently, as of Nougat (Android 7.0), the Chromium layer for WebView comes directly from the Chrome APK file, lowering memory and resource usage. So you can rest easy, knowing that Google works to keep the WebView components up to date.

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