Developer tools to debug WebView in Beta
Posted by Nate Fischer , Software Engineer, WebView team Since 2014, Android WebView has paved the way as an updateable system component, delivering stability and performance improvements, modern web platform features, and security patches to Android apps and users. However, updates can be a double edged sword: as much as we strive for stability and backward compatibility, new crashes and breaking changes occasionally slip through. To solve these issues faster, today we're announcing WebView DevTools, a new set of on-device debugging tools to diagnose WebView-caused crashes and misbehaving web platform features. For your convenience, WebView DevTools comes included as part of WebView itself. The easiest way to launch WebView Devtools is to try out WebView Beta . WebView's beta program is a way for app developers to get WebView several weeks before they reach users, for extra lead time to report compatibility bugs to our team . Starting with today's release (M83), WebView B...