Summary: In certain circumstances webview rendering is slow because it has to integrate with the android rendering API incase an app wishes to synchronize some App UI with web UI.
This isn't a limitation in chrome itself, which means chrome rendering has better performance for these specific operations (animations mostly).
Personally I think the chrome rendering path should always be used, and apps which want to draw under/over web content will have to deal with a frame or two of delay.
It's amazing bugs like this persist, even with the significant resources of several megacorps allocating legions of full-time developers to the codebase.
WebView performance significantly slower than PWA
(issues.chromium.org)28 points by denysonique 8 hours ago | 5 comments
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This isn't a limitation in chrome itself, which means chrome rendering has better performance for these specific operations (animations mostly).
Personally I think the chrome rendering path should always be used, and apps which want to draw under/over web content will have to deal with a frame or two of delay.
Basically, FB's engineering replaced it with a full chromium based webview and explained the reasons android webview sucks ass.