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Android offers a built-in WebView, which applications can hook into in order to display web pages within the context of their app. However, Android’s WebView is not really intended for building browsers, and hence, many advanced Web APIs are disabled. Furthermore, it is also a moving target: different phones might have different versions of WebView, all of which your app has to support.

  1. Gecko Driver For Firefox
  2. Gecko Firefox Version
  1. GeckoDriver is a proxy to communicate with Gecko-based browsers (E.g. Firefox (version47 and above) has done some changes, which has led to prevention of supporting third-party drivers to interact directly with the browsers. This is the primary reason for which we need to use the GeckoDriver.
  2. Think of it as harnessing the full power of Gecko (the engine that powers Firefox), while its API is WebView-like and easy to use. Suited for apps and browsers: GeckoView is particularly suited for building mobile browsers, but it can be embedded as a web engine component in any kind of app.
  3. Get Firefox, a free web browser backed by Mozilla, a non-profit dedicated to internet health and privacy. Available now on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.

That is where GeckoView comes in. GeckoView is:

Firefox 88.0 Based on Gecko 88.0. Released on 2021-04-19. Thunderbird 78.9.1 Based on Gecko 78.9.1. Released on 2021-04-13. Firefox Release Management.

  • Full-featured: GeckoView is designed to expose the entire power of the Web to applications, and all that through a straightforward API. Think of it as harnessing the full power of Gecko (the engine that powers Firefox), while its API is WebView-like and easy to use.
  • Suited for apps and browsers: GeckoView is particularly suited for building mobile browsers, but it can be embedded as a web engine component in any kind of app.
  • Self-Contained: Because GeckoView is a standalone library that you bundle with your application, you can be confident that the code you test is the code that will actually run.
  • Standards Compliant: Like Firefox, GeckoView offers excellent support for modern Web standards.
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