Android 9.0 Pie and under rely on Google Chrome to handle webpages, and you may actually notice significant improvements in performance and battery life if you disable WebView.

If your Android device is running on Android 7, 8, or 9, you can safely disable Android System WebView without worrying about consequences since Google Chrome handles WebView duties on these ...

The Webview object is essential for viewing websites on the phone from your customized widget. The Android SDK uses XML to set up screens for the widget, so you must use XML to create a Webview ...

Next, scroll down and tap Android System WebView, and then tap Disable. It’s worth pointing out that you can’t uninstall Android System WebView, since it’s a system app.

The feature was added in Android Oreo (8.0) but was not turned on by default, as developers specifically had to enable it in each app where they used a WebView component.

The just-released and latest version of Google’s mobile operating system, Android 4.4 KitKat, has made a big change to the WebView component: it is now powered by Chromium. Google says this is a ...

Google today announced that it’s launching a beta channel or Android WebView, the API many apps use to display webpages. Google noted that with Android 5.0 Lollipop, it now “has the ability to ...

Or, as Alex Dobie, managing editor for Android Central, put it in a tweet, " Google fixed the Jelly Bean webview issue over a year ago. The patch is called Android 4.4 KitKat." ...