Wondering what Android System WebView is and whether it's safe to disable it? Our quick primer on Android System WebView should hopefully clear up your doubts.

It's the app that provides Chrome-like browser rendering within apps, and according to developers and end users, many of the errors people are seeing indicate the problem resides there.

Google Chrome to Replace WebView in Android 7.0 Nougat Thursday July 21, 2016 Written by tasneem The company enables Chrome WebView rendering in version 51 for smartphones running on Android Nougat.

Facebook opens pages in its own in-app browser, which is powered by the Android System WebView. The main Facebook app is soon changing ...

Android users seeing constant app crashing can update the Android System WebView component and Google Chrome to fix the problem ...

A Google engineer explained that Android 10 uses a new implementation called 'Trichrome': "Chrome is no longer used as a WebView implementation in Q+.

As mentioned above, the key to stop Android apps crashing is updating to the newly-patched versions of Google Chrome and Android System WebView pushed out by Google to the Play Store.

Google says this is a “complete overhaul” of the Android WebView API, bringing the same rendering engine and software stack that powers Chrome to app developers targeting Android 4.4 KitKat.

Some third-party Android apps are reportedly suffering from user data loss following the latest Chrom/WebView update.