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> Since Android 4.4 (KitKat), the WebView component is based on the Chromium open source project. (...) Webviews also share the same rendering engine as Chrome
by wubin 8y ago
> Since Android 4.4 (KitKat), the WebView component is based on the Chromium open source project. (...) Webviews also share the same rendering engine as Chrome for Android. [0]
KitKat was released in 2013[1] as well as Blink in the same year[2].
Apart from Blink being a WebKit fork, WebKit itself is not "the dominant engine" anymore at least since 2014.
[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)