Android Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 5th Edition
by Bryan Sills, Brian Gardner, Kristin Marsicano, Chris Stewart
For the More Curious: WebView Updates
WebView is based on the Chromium open-source project. It shares the same rendering engine used by the Chrome for Android app, meaning pages should look and behave consistently across the two. (However, WebView does not have all the features Chrome for Android does. You can see a table comparing them at https://developer.chrome.com/docs/multidevice/webview/.)
Because it is based on Chromium, WebView stays up to date on web standards and JavaScript. From a development perspective, one of the most exciting features is the support for remote debugging of WebView using Chrome DevTools (which can be enabled by calling WebView.setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled()).
The Chromium layer of WebView is updated ...
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