alt.hn

2/7/2026 at 1:10:00 AM

WebView performance significantly slower than PWA

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40817676

by denysonique

2/7/2026 at 6:44:19 AM

It's amazing bugs like this persist, even with the significant resources of several megacorps allocating legions of full-time developers to the codebase.

by qingcharles

2/7/2026 at 7:37:38 AM

To save you having to read a really long comment thread: https://engineering.fb.com/2022/09/30/android/launching-a-ne...

Basically, FB's engineering replaced it with a full chromium based webview and explained the reasons android webview sucks ass.

by joecool1029

2/7/2026 at 6:23:53 AM

unfortunately nobody cares :(

by napolux