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WebView performance significantly slower than PWA (issues.chromium.org)
qingcharles 2 hours ago [-]
It's amazing bugs like this persist, even with the significant resources of several megacorps allocating legions of full-time developers to the codebase.
londons_explore 41 minutes ago [-]
Summary: In certain circumstances webview rendering is slow because it has to integrate with the android rendering API incase an app wishes to synchronize some App UI with web UI.

This isn't a limitation in chrome itself, which means chrome rendering has better performance for these specific operations (animations mostly).

Personally I think the chrome rendering path should always be used, and apps which want to draw under/over web content will have to deal with a frame or two of delay.

joecool1029 1 hours ago [-]
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.

napolux 3 hours ago [-]
unfortunately nobody cares :(
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