Developers who need to display web content as part of an app have the option of using Android's built-in WebView class. WebView renders a webpage without JavaScript and ignores errors. It's fine for reading content and saves devs from implementing a full-fledged browser. There's an experimental setting in Android L's developer options that could make WebViews much cooler – data compression.
We're not 100% sure how this feature is going to work, but the description makes it sound like Android L will be able to route WebView traffic through the same Google servers used to compress Chrome traffic in order to save data.
Android "L" Feature Spotlight: System-Wide Data Compression For WebViews was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
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