Hello, I am building an Android Studio plugin, and it would be really valuable to surface a webview inside a toolwindow. I am aware that Android Studio doesn’t provide JCEF bundled with their JDKs, and they haven’t for 4 years. So its probably not going to change anytime soon. I want to avoid, if …

Hi Aidan, I can’t answer the question of whether this is a viable alternative. We didn’t test it. I guess it technically possible to run other than JBCEF browsers. Possible issues you may face trying to bring JCEF into your plugin: Compatibility with JBCEF. Running 2 instances of a chromium brow…

We have an update [image] Experimental JCEF Web Browser API support for Android Studio Announcements We’re excited to announce that the JCEF (Java Chromium Embedded Framework) web browser API is now experimentally available for Android Studio — a capabili…

Implementing webview toolwindows in Android Studio

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yuriy.artamonov (Yuriy Artamonov) April 20, 2026, 3:28pm 6

We have an update

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Implementing webview toolwindows in Android Studio

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