

If you're a web developer looking to start developing a WebView-based Android application, see Getting Started: WebView-based Applications for Web Developers. To see what version of Chrome is currently used on a Lollipop device, simply go to Settings < Apps < Android System WebView and look at the version.

In Android 5.0 (Lollipop), the WebView has moved to an APK so it can be updated seperately to the Android platform. New Webviews also share the same rendering engine as Chrome for Android, so rendering should be much more consistent between the WebView and Chrome. WebViews now include an updated version of the V8 JavaScript engine and support for modern web standards previously missing in old WebViews. Since Android 4.4 (KitKat), the WebView component is based on the Chromium open source project.
