Does not work on Android WebView

Console	About WevView

Feature detection from datalist-polyfill.js file:

19 // Feature detection - let's break here, if it's even already supported
20 if (
21	'list' in dcmnt.createElement('input') &&
22	Boolean(dcmnt.createElement('datalist') && window.HTMLDataListElement)
23 ) {
24	return false;
25 }

Also tested on WebView-based app on real devices:

• Google Pixel 2
• Google Pixel
• Google Pixel XL
• Moto G4 Play
• Moto G3

[mitchhentges]

Hmm, this is interesting 🤔 Ideally, we shouldn’t need to check the UA, we should either detect the feature and do nothing, or not detect the feature and polyfill. It’s strange that it’s not behaving properly.

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The caniuse shows just a random numbers for Android column

For what it’s worth:

• For all Android versions up to 4.4.4 (KitKat), the Android webview version was tied to the OS. Updates for the OS would update the webview
• For Android versions 5.0+, the Android webview version is now decoupled from the OS version, allowing more frequent updates. So, whenever there’s a Chrome desktop release, there’s an associated Chrome for Android release as well (so, the “67” shown on caniuse is referring to the Chrome version)

reference

Although WebView has been based on Chromium since Android 4.4, the Chromium layer is now updatable from Google Play.

[vpodk]

@mfranzke, I did not report any issue to Google’s bug tracking system, but I found this one: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=242455