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Chrome WebView

• Developer: Google
• Development Status: Active
• Released: 2013
• Platforms: Android
• Type: Browser
• Rendering Engine: Blink

Overview

Chrome WebView is Android's Chromium-based component for displaying web content inside apps.

Related Browsers

UAParser.js detects these related browser products and projects separately:

Browser	Description
Chrome	The standard desktop version of Chrome.
Chrome Mobile	Chrome's standalone browser for Android and iOS.
Chrome WebView	A browser component for showing web content inside Android apps.
Chrome Headless	Chrome without a graphical interface, commonly used for automation.
Chromium	The open-source browser project behind Chrome.
Android Browser	The stock browser included with early Android releases.

History

Android changed WebView to a Chromium-based implementation in Android 4.4. This affected the component used inside apps, not the standalone Chrome Mobile browser.

User-Agent Examples

Android

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1.1; Nexus 5 Build/LMY48B; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/43.0.2357.65 Mobile Safari/537.36

Code Example

import { UAParser } from 'ua-parser-js';
import { BrowserName } from 'ua-parser-js/enums';

const parser = new UAParser();
const ua = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 5.1.1; Nexus 5 Build/LMY48B; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/43.0.2357.65 Mobile Safari/537.36';

const browser = parser.setUA(ua).getBrowser();

console.log(browser);
// {name: "Chrome WebView", version: "43.0.2357.65", major: "43", type: "inapp"}

console.log(browser.is(BrowserName.CHROME_WEBVIEW));
// true