‘Close leak old browser Android unfeasible’ – Telegraaf.nl

According to Google employee Adrian Ludwig close the tech company’s security in Browser older Android versions not because it is not feasible. Too much code would need to be adapted

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In a post on his Google+ page Ludwig explains that bugs in the browser Android 4.3 and lower no longer be repaired. It is made in these versions of Android using an older version of WebKit, which is very different from the last branch. When discovered bugs need to be adjusted very many codes to correct the problems. The required code covers five million lines and every month there are large tracts of new code offered by developers. This is according to Ludwig impossible to adapt older versions.

The advice for developers who use WebView, is a way to render web content from an app, only to leave again give content over https . They could also use their own rendering engine for WebView. This old WebKit engine is bypassed

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