Enhance your Android apps with content from external websites, using WebViews - and ensure this content looks good across a range of screen configurations.

The Android SDK uses XML to set up screens for the widget, so you must use XML to create a Webview screen for your app.

Such is the case with Android's WebView whose update has caused some apps to crash for now reason. Fortunately, the workaround to fix it is simple and doesn't require resetting affected apps.

They're often too lazy / incompetent / cheap to build real native Android applications, and instead rely on what's called WebView. Essentially, WebView allows an app to display a web page.

How to avoid WebView trouble on older Android devices Google has stopped providing pre-KitKat patches for Android's built-in Web browser, but that doesn't mean you're left wide open to attacks.

Update (8:26 PM ET): Google has confirmed the issue and its link to the WebView app. According to a spokesperson, "We are aware of an issue with WebView causing some apps on Android to crash.

The WebView app is a background running application that provides support for the Android operating system, is it a need?

Android System WebView is an essential part of the Android OS that lets apps display web content without starting a separate web browser app.

If you are unable to update the Android System Webview app, or other core Google apps because the Android System Webview is not updating itself, these are the solutions that you need to do.

Facebook wants to address how every time Android System WebView is updated via the Play Store, apps that use it crash as part of the natural upgrade process.