

More pervasive with the advent of cross-platform mobile frameworks such asĬordova, Xamarin and React Native, that render most of the apps' content inside HTML, such as email clients and RSS readers. It's use was at first limited to apps that needed to show bits of It allowsĭevelopers to render web content (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) inside theirĪpplications. The WebView API has been around since the first version of Android.
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Proposals on how to get a fully free WebView build or replace it by something 1.5 Approach 3: replace WebView for GeckoView on apps themselves.1.4 Approach 2: WebView API compatibility shim for GeckoView.1.3.1 Fully free WebView apk with existing Chromium forks.We will present our approaches on this lightning talk, on the hopes of getting feedback from the community and engaging other projects to collaborate with us.Īndroid, Chromium, Chrome, privacy, adblock, webview, ungoogled, gecko Our tentative approaches go all the way from further cleaning the Chromium source after projects like ungoogled-chromium, to fully replacing WebView by a shim built around GeckoView. As a fully free-software Android distribution, Replicant is exploring different paths to create a WebView build that respects user's privacy and freedom. WebView is nowadays built out of the Chromium source tree which has been plagued by privacy and freedom issues. WebView is one of the core components of the Android system, used and abused by apps to render web content (HTML, CSS, JS).
