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Android System WebView

Android System WebView

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Version
137.0.7151.115 (build 715111531) 
Size
125.9 MiB
Publish Date
2025-06-20
Category
Tools
Rating
5.00 (1)
Package
com.google.android.webview
Minimum OS
Android 10.0
SHA1
2b8aff3722bad61feca48e33b179c8f8f71888a1
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 . 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.

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