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.

Android System WebView is an essential part of the Android OS that lets apps display web content without starting a separate web browser app.

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.

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.

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 users seeing constant app crashing can update the Android System WebView component and Google Chrome to fix the problem ...

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.