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Alice Van Der Land
Alice Van Der Land

Reputation: 577

Android System Webview

I am looking into the AOSP source code to see how WebViews are implemented. As far as I know, with Android 6, WebView is now a separate application of its own (called Android System Webview). However, in the external/chromium-webview folder I only have the apk files.

I found frameworks/base/core/java/webkit/WebView.java, which seems to be the WebView implementation, but I don't quite understand if this is the real implementation or just a stub. Is it this one, or the source code on chromium website that actually is the Android System WebView?

Also, how is it that an Android app can use the Android System Webview app to create a Webview in itself? How are they connected?

Finally, in the folder where I have webview.apk, readme mentions libwebviewchromium.so. What is that?

Thanks very much in advance.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2408

Answers (1)

rupesh jain
rupesh jain

Reputation: 3430

I guess chromium is a separate project. They are building the apk and putting it in AOSP.

You should refer here-https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-android-webview

I ASSUME Web view is just a view...all the logic, parsing of html and other stuff is there in separate app...webview just binds to other app for all the logic...

Upvotes: 5

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