Android 10 no longer uses Chrome app to render in-app web content

The component of Android responsible for rendering web pages inside apps (login screens, simple browsers, etc.) is the WebView. It became a separately-updated component with Android 5 Lollipop, and then Chrome started to handle WebView entirely in Android 7 Nougat. Starting with Android 10, Chrome no longer serves as the system WebView... sort of.

An issue on the Android bug tracker brought attention to this change, as someone couldn't figure out why Chrome no longer appeared an option in the WebView picker (found in Android's Developer Options).

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