Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. An issue on the Android bug tracker brought attention to this change ...

Android widgets let you add customized functionality to Android tablets and cellphones. The Webview object is essential for viewing websites on the phone from your customized widget. The Android SDK ...

PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 23: In this photo illustration, the logos of the applications, Google Maps, Google and Gmail are displayed on the screen of a tablet on October 23, 2018 in Paris, France. After ...

It's not exactly uncommon for an update to sometimes break a perfectly working app but those have become rarer, especially for big, popular ones. When Google's own "invisible" components break that ...

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When you open a link while in another app, it usually launches in your browser (e.g., Chrome) or a Custom Tab. Facebook opens pages in its own in-app browser, which is powered by the Android System ...

A large number of Android users over the past few hours have been encountering continuous Gmail and other app shutdowns, with some finding that uninstalling Android System WebView will stop the ...

9to5Google has reported that the Android System WebView component crashing Android users’ apps now has a permanent fix. On March 22 a lot of Android users were having problems with continuous crashes ...

During the course of March, Google had pushed its really buggy Android System WebView update which caused a massive slur of WebView crashing apps and Android apps crash. The messy issue was quite ...

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