If you are still waiting for Google to do something about the WebView vulnerabilities in older Android releases, you may not be a fan of their official response to the matter. Google says they’ve ...

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 has finally explained why it's not going to develop its own patches for WebView for Android versions 4.3 and earlier, even though it could leave over 930 million Android devices exposed to ...

The latest Google System updates for November 2025 introduce new features and improvements across Android devices, enhancing user experience and developer services.

An odd bug last month saw random Android apps crashing left and right for seemingly no reason at all. It was eventually and correctly traced to Android's WebView component and, fortunately, some have ...

David is the former Editor-in-Chief of Android Police and now the EIC of Esper.io. He's been an Android user since the early days - his first smartphone was a Google Nexus One! David graduated from ...

Google announced earlier this week plans to enable Safe Browsing support for the Android WebView component, a stripped-down browser that comes with all Android versions. The Safe Browsing API is a ...

Android smartphone owners who aren’t running the latest version of their operating system might get some nasty surprises from malicious hackers in 2015. That's because one of the core components of ...

If you’re running Android 4.3 or earlier, you’re pretty much out of luck when it comes to a baked-in defense against a WebView vulnerability that was discovered earlier this month by security analyst ...

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 update ...

Android 5.0 Lollipop, set to be released in November, fixes a design issue in Android KitKat that left the OS exposed to newly-disclosed bugs in the Chromium project. Google has quietly introduced a ...