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Android System WebView

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Android System WebView

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Uploaded by
DicSuka
Version
137.0.7151.88 (build 715108831) 
Size
125.9 MiB
Publish Date
2025-06-14
Category
Tools
Package
com.google.android.webview
Minimum OS
Android 10.0
SHA1
21181f2693668da5cf500fe1715e66db64ac3d3c
Description
Android System WebView is a system component for the Android operating system (OS) that enables Android apps to display web content directly inside an application. There are two ways to open web content on an Android device: using a traditional web browser or an Android application that includes WebView in the layout. Android WebView is built on the open source Chromium engine. This is the same engine that powers Google Chrome. A developer who wants to add browser functionality to an application can include the WebView library and create an instance of a WebView class. This approach essentially embeds a browser within the app to do things like render webpages and execute scripts. In the past, WebView was tightly coupled with the OS, and it was only updated when a new version of the OS was released. This slower release schedule made it possible that an exploit that was fixed in Chrome wasn't yet fixed in WebView. It is now a discrete application that can be updated through the Google Play app store. All operating systems have an equivalent WebView component. In Windows 11, this is Edge WebView2, and in iOS and macOS, it is WKWebView . Android System WebView lets applications display web content in an app instead of transporting the user to another browser. Android developers use WebView when they want to display webpages or Hypertext Markup Language content in a Google app or other application. The following are examples of how WebView can be used to embed webpages: When users click on a privacy policy link on a screen in an Android System WebView app, the application opens a webpage with the privacy policy content instead of taking them to a browser. Users use a social media account to log in to an application. Developers use WebView to embed a social media application's login window inside their application and give users a choice as to how to log in. Instead of coding a sign-in function from scratch, WebView lets developers import the social sign-in function. WebView is used to take an existing website and present it as a native app. Using WebView this way is a low-code method of constructing hybrid applications that free developers from having to code native applications from scratch. Malicious actors can use WebView to exploit devices, using tactics such as cross-site scripting. This is why it is important that Android System WebView be kept up to date . Early versions of WebView were integrated as part of the core Android OS. Users could only update WebView through larger system updates. Because each device manufacturer releases its own system updates, there was sometimes a long wait between when Google released the code to fix a flaw in WebView and when a manufacturer released the update. With the release of Android 5, Google separated WebView from the core OS. With this change, WebView updates could be distributed through the Google Play Store app, and users could update WebView independently of the OS. If an issue was found in the WebView component, Google would push out a bug fix that users could install without having to completely update Android. Google combined WebView with Google Chrome for Android versions 7, 8 and 9. However, with Android 10, WebView went back to being a separate component. Users can update WebView in Android 10 or higher through Google Play. Sometimes this requires they delete stored data from the application's cache before downloading the update. Google no longer provides patches for vulnerabilities found in older versions -- 4.3 and earlier -- of Android. To protect devices from attacks that might exploit WebView's capabilities, the company recommends Android users run the latest version of the OS and update WebView when prompted . It is not safe to uninstall Android System WebView. Recent versions of WebView are impossible to completely uninstall because it is system software and comes preinstalled on Android devices. Because WebView loads website content, removing WebView updates will take away recent security patches and could leave the system vulnerable to malicious software attacks. However, it can be disabled on certain Android versions. Users might want to disable WebView for the following reasons: They're unfamiliar with the Android System WebView application and mistake it for malicious spyware or useless bloatware. It consumes more resources than they like. They have a bad user experience, which happens occasionally because WebView can be poorly integrated into an application. WebView doesn't work consistently on different versions of Android. Google does not advise disabling WebView; users should keep it activated and updated. However, users running Android 7, 8 and 9 might want to disable it to conserve processing power or memory, or to avoid crashes related to update bugs. Users can safely disable Android System WebView in the following Android versions without experiencing adverse consequences: Android 7 Nougat. Android 8 Oreo. Android 9 Pie.
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