Webview shows error “Didn't find class ”android.webkit.RenderProcessGoneDetail"

Question

My tablet Android version is 7.0 and Chrome version 62.0.3202.84.

When first run my webview app, debug window show

Didn\'t find class \"andro

Answer 1

It appears to be a bug, more details here: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/android-webview-dev/m0EtO3IXNn0

On N+ new ART logging appears to have been introduced letting app developers know about certain binary compatibility problems in their code. Unfortunately, this is triggering for some of the API-level guarded code in WebView.

One example is "Failed resolution of: Landroid/webkit/RenderProcessGoneDetail;", which is triggered whenever a recent version of WebView with O features is used on an N device. This is harmless, but confusing and spammy to developers looking at logcat.