With the larger attack surface WebView brings to Android, it’s not just about whether an app will crash or content won’t render, it’s also about security.

Android developers can give the company feedback, based on what they are seeing in their own apps that use WebView, as well as based on an APIs they want to try. This has been a long time coming.

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.

Android System WebView allows your device to display web-based content inside regular apps without resorting to a web browser like Chrome.

A leading US academic will shortly publish a paper highlighting potential security problems with the WebView platform, the coding system used to create many of the most popular Google Android apps.

It's the app that provides Chrome-like browser rendering within apps, and according to developers and end users, many of the errors people are seeing indicate the problem resides there.

Currently, developers who create “sideloaded” Android apps are exempt from Google’s verification requirements.

A Google engineer explained that Android 10 uses a new implementation called 'Trichrome': "Chrome is no longer used as a WebView implementation in Q+.