I’ve been a little disappointed with my experience using Android WebViews. Perhaps naively, I expected WebViews by default to just work and behave the same way as the Webkit-based Browser app. I was wrong. Android WebViews seem to start out as very basic browser implementations and require you to manually enable or implement support for various behavior that you just expect from a browser.

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I’ve had the opportunity to develop on both the iOS and Android platforms, something that, statistically speaking, makes me part of a minority of developers. My experience has been that the iOS platform offers better tools for developers, but that the Android platform offers more freedom in what a developer can do with a device. I thought I’d share some of my observations on the differences between the two platforms for anyone who is curious what its like developing for the other device.

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