The company provides a closer look at the outage
Android users were forced to deal with a major app outage last month when Google apps started crashing all of a sudden for no clear reason regardless of Android version and device brand. In a detailed report published this week, the Google Workspace Team explains that it all comes down to a bug related to Chrome and WebView. “A bug within Chrome & WebView’s experiment & configuration technology caused instability for Android applications which incorporated WebView to surface web content. This bug caused those applications to crash on the affected devices.
