At least you can write/bundle your own render engine on Android, something which is not possible on iOS.
Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
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Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#12This started happening for me last night. Just updated webview to 89.0.4389.105 and everything works now.
Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#13There is a misconception that removing Android Webview is "fixing" the problem. The proper word is that removing the updated Android Webview is "a temporary workaround" until an updated Android Webview is released. You cannot remove Android Webview because it is an essential part of Android. By "removing" the package, you are removing the latest update and revert back to the old (and probably insecure) version of And…
I assume that this is uninstalling updates, which means that you are back to the WebView that came with your phone. This obviously opens a whole new can of worms as now you may be years of security updates behind.
I really wish that popular stores had an option to roll back one version until the next update came out.
Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#14Well, I'm glad to see this posted here... I was concerned that somehow my phone got infected with some kind of malware after a reboot didn't fix it. It's concerning to me that an update was pushed out that apparently wasn't tested very well.
Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#15How does something like this make it to production? I couldn't reply to any work emails for the greater part of the evening yesterday. Adds more evidence to the case of "never use Google for your business".
You never made a mistake that made it through your test suite to production?
Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dont see an update option for this app in the app store. It says last release was March 12th. How exactly do I get this update?
No action required if you’re not experiencing issues. If you’re affected and not able to update, trying to “uninstall updates” for “Android System WebView” will revert it to ROM-included unaffected version and solve it.
That sounds very risky, since untrusted code shown in any webview can then exploit long fixed chrome bugs.
Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#17How does something like this make it to production? I couldn't reply to any work emails for the greater part of the evening yesterday. Adds more evidence to the case of "never use Google for your business".
Maybe it didn’t make it to production? The affected users might have been in the canary population?
Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#18At least you can write/bundle your own render engine on Android, something which is not possible on iOS.
But if your app is now 200MB instead of 2MB, know that there are a significant number of users that simply won’t install your app (or will remove it) because they don’t have either space or bandwidth. Cheaper Android phones regularly have almost no spare space (like, well under 2GB available to user space when empty, even though the phone may have been advertised as having 8GB, and even that 2GB may well be partitioned stupidly so that you have less than 1GB available to install apps on).
Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#19How does something like this make it to production? I couldn't reply to any work emails for the greater part of the evening yesterday. Adds more evidence to the case of "never use Google for your business".
I guess the team has Q1 OKR to meet and/or error budget to spend? Either way, it's bad. I am not saying the bug would have been prevented if the team operates differently. Brown paper bag release happens. However, the way this incident blew up suggests that the bad release made it to too many users in too short of a time, exactly the behavior incentivized by meeting (or exceeding) an OKR while having some spare error…
What do you think "error budget" means?
(Hint, it doesn't mean "amount of intentionally deployed errors we allow".)
Do you believe WebView should never update because it's never OK to spend error budget?
Re: Google confirms an issue with WebView is crashing many Android apps (Fixed)
#20My phone rebooted a few times during the last week.
At first I thought it was just planned obsolescence killing a three year old device, but fortunately that doesn't seem to be the case.