Android WebView performance

Question

In my app, I am loading a list of external url\'s in webview and allow user to flip through them. Webviews are loaded on to a view flipper. I find the performance is reall

Answer 1

I think the following works best:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 19) {
    webView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_HARDWARE, null);
}       
else {
    webView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
}

Android 19 has Chromium engine for WebView. I guess it works better with hardware acceleration.

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