Creating Unanticipated Complexity Through Excessive Utilization of Webviews within a Mobile App
Mobile app developers use webviews primarily to embed web content (HTML/JS) into a native mobile app (iOS or Android). There are three main applications of webviews that conform to mobile app development best practices: Showing Web Content: If your app has embedded web links (URLs) that require rendering web pages within your app, then this takes place within a webview container. Displaying Advertising: If the mobile app displays advertising banners, web view containers are embedded with native views to render the advertising content from remote sources. Mobile App Enabling a Web Application: When you are distributing a web application within a mobile app container, the webview serves as the medium where the web application resides and executes its functionality. The first two applications of webviews are the original intent of availing webviews within a native mobile app, and developers utilize webviews for these purposes without any significant complications. The third application...