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The web browser used on older (pre 4.4) and non-Google experience versions of Android, based on the open-source WebKit layout engine, coupled with Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine

The web browser available in Android is based on the open-source WebKit layout engine, coupled with Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. The browser scores 100/100 on the Acid3 test on Android 4.0.

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what's the difference between Blob and Blobbuilder or Blobbuilder's issue on android native browser

The question is not duplicate from What's the difference between BlobBuilder and the new Blob constructor? I'm doing web app. To upload image I use Blob, just in case BlobBuilder too. Blob works well, but Blob doesn't work on android native…
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Google Analytics interferes with history.back() in android browser?

I have a html5 mobile app where everything exists on a single page and I use history.back/popstate/etc to change the contents of the page (via jQuery Mobile). I'm using Google Analytics to track various events, and on one page I track if the user…
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Android WebView - scrollbar don't fill the layout_height

I have a WebView with large text content. I'm using the following WebView settings: settings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true); settings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true); settings.setUseWideViewPort(true); settings.setSupportZoom(false); …
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Detect web app running as homescreen app on Android Stock Browser

We are building a web app that has to be used as a standalone / homescreen app. In Chrome and Safari we can detect if it is viewed from the browser or from native-like browser container with either window.navigator.standalone or…
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How to continue using Browser Bookmark Changes in Android 6.0 (API 23)

In my app, I have been using some of these function that are coming up as unknown when using Android 6.0 (buildToolsVersion "23.0.1"), the functions are: Browser.getAllVisitedUrls(getContentResolver());, BookmarkColumns.URL, etc. How can I use the…
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Debugging Android 2.3 browser crashes

Recently, I've been trying to find (and hopefully, fix) frequent Android 2.3 browser crashes that affect the SB Nation blog network. Users will navigate to page and it will appear to load, and then about when you'd expect the DOM complete to fire,…
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Canvas rendering performance

I am modifying the HTML5 port of the game Jump'n'Bump to run on Apple and Android-based mobile devices. I use a cheap 1 GHz Cortex-A8 Android 4.0.3 tablet for testing. I have encountered strange behaviour in the system's Browser. I normally get a…
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OnKeyUp event in Android browser for non-latin languages

Android default browser doesn't fire OnKeyUp events on text inputs if user types non-latin characters. For example http://jsfiddle.net/Hzjhz/. It works for English characters but does not work for Russian and Korean characters. Are there any ways…
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Android Web Browser Scaling Works More Effectively for Images than Sprites

I'm developing a mobile web application and I have a home screen with a number of icons on it, so I tried to use a sprite to serve all the images in one swoop. I noticed, however, that the iphone4 scaled the images in my sprite fairly well (they…
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Android Cookies (Reward for Invites)

I am trying to integrate 'reward for invites' logic. What I am trying to do for this is I generate a unique URl for every user. When a friend clicks on the URL he is directed to a page and then to the playstore. On the page, a cookie with the unique…
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Android browser bottom control bar overlays content

I have a fix positioned element at the bottom of the screen which works perfectly except for the Android browser where the bottom control bar overlays my element. It doesn't even trigger the window resize event to try and work with that. iOS Safari…
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Android browsers keyboard opens/closes on last input field focus

I'm getting some odd behaviour in the Chrome browser on HTC One and Galaxy S5. I click on an input field to enter some data and the keyboard opens and immediately closes again. I've noticed it only happens on the last available input field on my…
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How to identify factors that will help reproduce web rendering bugs for android web browsers?

Recently I've been working on a number of tickets for web rendering bugs that are only seen on a subset of Android devices (or even a single Android device). Reproducing bugs in this category seems to be really difficult -- sometimes I find that I…
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Get Last Visited URL in Chrome and other browser's

I want to get last visited URL in chrome and other browser's. I am able to get Last URL in android Native browser. I use following code for this - Cursor cur = getContentResolver().query(Browser.BOOKMARKS_URI, new String[] {…
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android browser (webkit) select-multiple's items disappear when selected

I have an issue with Android's webkit browser Items in select-multiple disappear when they are selected I couldn't find any solution on the web, neither nobody talking about this issue I made the screenshots in my desktop OS just to demonstrate…
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