I’ve been talking about this problem in a recent post this year – Android Browser: the eternal mobile browser.
The same problems that most web developers suffer right now with the Android Browser -reported to be 32% of the mobile web browsing market share, compared with just 5% of the modern Chrome for Android according to Akamai. Besides the good news, not everything looks exciting in these changes, let’s see why.Įvery web developer that has played with native webapps, PhoneGap and the Android’s WebView knows how terrible it was in terms of performance and HTML5 compatibility. The new Android Browser is also powered by Chromium but it’s not clear yet its future.
By Maximiliano Firtman Twitter About NewsletterĪndroid 4.4 has made a big change in the OS’ internals for HTML5 development: it has replaced its original WebKit-based WebView with modern Chromium.
