Android System WebView is an essential part of the Android OS that lets apps display web content. The WebView app is essential to most modern Android device's operation and can't be disabled or ...

You should not disable Android System WebView as many apps rely on it to display web-based content, including emails in Gmail. If you disable it, you may notice silent crashes in many apps.

Now the Android maker is taking steps so that the incident won't happen again, even if it does accidentally push a buggy update again. Updates that bring bugs aren't that uncommon, just ask Microsoft.

Google pins the problem on a “bug within Chrome & WebView’s experiment & configuration technology.” This caused “instability” in Android apps that use WebView to render web content that ...

Google has detailed the reasons for last month’s spate of Android app crashes. A WebView configuration issue was the root cause. Google plans to improve its WebView and Chrome rollout measures ...

4. Repeat these steps for Google Chrome Problems with Gmail and other Android apps began to pop up on Monday afternoon and lasted roughly seven hours, according to Google's status dashboard for Gmail.