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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WebView, a feature that displays web pages in Google's Android operating system, may serve as a ticket for hackers into an Android device, a security vendor warned. AVG Security said the vulnerability ...

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 ...

As per various threads and comments popping up on Reddit, several Pixel users have begun facing issues with the smartphones. The issue sees both Google’s default and third-party apps crash when opened ...

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 ...

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 ...