Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

You can get more granular control by building a custom browsing experience on top of Android’s WebView, but at the cost of more technical complexity and an unfamiliar browsing experience for users. If ...

Google is making your transition from native apps to the mobile Web a bit faster. Chrome Custom Tabs allow apps to pre-load, cutting the time it takes to load a webpage in half. Custom Tabs will start ...

Google Chrome has and continues to be improved in significant ways but while the latest change in version 105 — clarifying the labeling of Chrome Custom Tabs as compared to WebView tabs — is more ...

Some Google+ users are finding that links are now opening in Chrome Custom Tabs rather than the full Chrome app or another default browser. Not everyone is seeing the change though, making it look ...

Google is making official the ability for Custom Tabs to open in a partial, developer-defined view, and there’s also now “Running in Chrome” branding. Chrome now supports “Partial Custom Tabs” as an ...

Chrome is a popular browser for its simplicity and security. It allows you to personalize the browser on your computer with extensions, apps, and themes. Among its various customization options, ...

In an ideal world, all Android apps would use Custom Tabs over in-app browsers (WebViews). Google is now making it more apparent when you’re “running” a Chrome Custom Tab (CCT). With Chrome 104 or ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Google has been working on Chrome Custom Tabs quite a lot recently.

Chrome Custom Tabs is a pretty unique feature, and one that we’re seeing more and more apps take advantage of lately. It saves developers a lot of work actually. Instead of needing to build in a ...