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System webview?
from Zotesune_miku@lemmy.zip to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 27 May 07:20
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Anyone knows what android system webview & private compute services are?

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Bell@lemmy.world on 27 May 07:36 next collapse

System web view is the stripped down browser/HTML viewer that other apps use to display a web page. I think android lets you replace it but not sure

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 May 08:24 next collapse

I think you need root access to replace it. Or maybe, you need to use something like adb to uninstall the chrome based one, and install something foss like cromite’s or forefox webview.

Cassa@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 27 May 08:32 collapse

unless it’s been changed it should just be in developer options “webview implementation”

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de on 27 May 13:29 collapse

It has never worked for me.

pewpew@feddit.it on 28 May 00:37 collapse

It works for me

voxel@feddit.uk on 27 May 11:08 collapse

You can’t change the System WebView unless you use root or an alternative Android distro that allows you to change it, like Iodé does.

The Android System WebView by Google is hardcoded into an internal list as one of the very few allowed ones.

androidauthority.com/what-is-android-system-webvi…

iode.tech/documentation/webview/

pewpew@feddit.it on 28 May 00:37 collapse

You can change it in developer settings on Android 15, search for “WebView implementation”

voxel@feddit.uk on 28 May 09:39 collapse

No, it only lets you change it to those whitelisted by the OS, which is by default only the Android System Webview. Maybe its AOSP variant too. On older Android versions also Chrome, I don’t know if this is still the case with newer ones.

pewpew@feddit.it on 28 May 10:00 collapse

Oh ok, I changed it to Chrome Dev because the system webview couldn’t update with Aurora Store, so that’s why it works?

voxel@feddit.uk on 06 Jun 14:23 collapse

Yes.

WellTheresYourCobbler@hexbear.net on 27 May 12:39 next collapse

Webview is used so that apps can display web pages without opening a separate browser

non_burglar@lemmy.world on 27 May 15:28 next collapse

I haven’t seen any responses on Private Compute, which is a client-side framework to do “work” that is too expensive to send to a google cloud service and back. Most common use is live captioning from audio with no caption stream.

Private Compute is heavily criticized by those who value freedom of software on Android because it is clearly doing other things, simply based on CPU use and activity, but the application is more or less a “black box”, we the public don’t know how it works.

akunohana@piefed.blahaj.zone on 27 May 18:27 next collapse

I have been running a non degoogled (although heavily stripped down) Samsung Galaxy S23 without Private Compute for two years without problems. With that said, I am not using any proprietary apps from the Google ecosystem, so I cannot speak for those that do.

GreenSpring76@feddit.org on 28 May 14:11 next collapse

Maybe one of most underrated features of GrapheneOS is its Vanadium browser acting as System WebView

formlessoedon@lemmy.ml on 28 May 16:25 collapse

Unfortunately the only way to escape this and retain a boot locked phone is GrapheneOS now. Used Pixels are cheap as fuck though.