Android Developers Blog: WebView

WebView

Increasing trust for embedded media

02 November 2023

Posted by the Android team Android WebView is a powerful and flexible API that Android developers can use to embed media in their app...

Improving user privacy by requiring opt-in to send X-Requested-With header from WebView

08 February 2023

Posted by Peter Birk Pakkenberg, Software Engineer X-Requested-With (XRW) is a nonstandard header. When a user installs and runs a...

Developer tools to debug WebView in Beta

17 April 2020

Posted by Nate Fischer , Software Engineer, WebView team Since 2014, Android WebView has paved the way as an updateable system compone...

Protecting WebView with Safe Browsing

17 April 2018

Posted by Nate Fischer, Software Engineer Since 2007, Google Safe Browsing has been protecting users across the web from phishing an...

Chrome custom tabs smooth the transition between apps and the web

02 September 2015

Originally posted on the Chromium blog Posted by Yusuf Ozuysal, Chief Tab Customizer Android app developers face a difficult tradeoff...

Beta Channel for the Android WebView

13 February 2015

Posted by Richard Coles, Software Engineer, Google London Many Android apps use a WebView for displaying HTML content. In Android 5.0 L...

Security Enhancements in Jelly Bean

14 February 2013

Posted by Fred Chung , Android Developer Relations team Android 4.2, Jelly Bean, introduced quite a few new features , and under the cover...

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