Community meeting on IRC 11th January 2024

Announcements
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  • Name/IRC nick: Matias
  • Topic: AAS System Webview
  • Some details about the topic: SFOS AAS comes with Android System Webview version 83 which is 3.5 years old by now. This causes certain banking apps and potentially other Android applications that rely on a more recent version of webview to stop working and it’s also a bit of a security risk. Installing and activating a different webview implementation requires superuser rights (infeasible) or signature spoofing (which nobody seems to have tried in the context of webview yet). With the reorganization over I was hoping someone could shed some light on this.
  • So, is there an update for AAS/Android System Webview somewhere down the pipeline?

Links/references:

  1. Rabobank app stopped working
  2. Old Android WebView (74.x) --> update needed, ideas?
  3. Make updating Android (System)Webview possible
  4. GeckoView instead of Android System WebView · Issue #167 · mozilla/geckoview · GitHub
  • Approx. time needed: 5min
  • Substitute (optional): I’m not sure if I will be able to make it, if not I will watch the logs.
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