WebView Feature Flags: Java to Native Compositor
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WebView Feature Flags: Java to Native Compositor

The source documents examine the complex, multi-layered feature-flag architecture within Android's WebView, which is essential for controlling experimental features, field trials (Finch), and underlying rendering behavior across different channels like Canary and Stable. These flags are defined natively as C++ base::Feature constants and mirrored to the Java layer via auto-generated classes like AwFeatures to maintain synchronization between the API and implementation. Feature state is determined early during application startup by consulting default settings, Finch field trial configurations, and overrides from command-line switches supplied by the system or the Developer UI. The native feature status is communicated to the Java layer through the JNI bridge via the AwFeatureList, ensuring Java components can adapt to the current configuration. This feature state then dictates conditional behavior throughout the pipeline, affecting subsystems such as the Chromium Compositor (cc layer) which uses the flags to implement new graphics and performance optimizations. Crucially, WebView differs from Chrome by maintaining a strict ProductionSupportedFlagList, limiting flag exposure on production devices to protect the stability and security of embedded applications.

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