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WebKit is the dominant engine because it's what powers Webviews on Android.

> Since Android 4.4 (KitKat), the WebView component is based on the Chromium open source project. (...) Webviews also share the same rendering engine as Chrome for Android. [0]

KitKat was released in 2013[1] as well as Blink in the same year[2].

Apart from Blink being a WebKit fork, WebKit itself is not "the dominant engine" anymore at least since 2014.

[0]: https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blink_(browser_engine)

Not since android.. 6? It defaults to the chrome browser. You can choose the other chrome browsers too (beta dev canary if installed, via the developer settings) and the web view might actually also be chrome. WebKit on android is from ages ago.

Im not talking about default web browsers.

I wasn't either!

https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/webview/overview Since 4.4 it is based on Chrome, not WebKit. Since I think version 6, on all the Google phones it defaults to using Chrome for WebView instead of the "WebView for Android" browser.

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