Achieving Native-like Speed

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Claims a >100% speedup overall by combining three tactics: resource preloading (zip bundles served from local storage for important pages, real-world use limited to a few critical pages to avoid bandwidth/disk bloat), real-time preloading (fetch HTML at WebView startup, parse subresource URLs, then parallel-request them yields ~6–80% improvement), and a native worker (QuickJS) that runs page data-fetch logic off-main-thread so data wait drops to near zero. Warm-reuse WebView pooling is attempted but causes OOM/stability so it’s not rolled out; AndroidX async WebView is awaited.

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1. 0:00Android WebView performance intro
2. 1:50What is WebView and use cases
3. 4:45Slow WebView initialization
4. 9:03Slow resource loading
5. 13:47Optimizing resource preloading
6. 20:38Slow JavaScript execution
7. 22:27Data pre-fetching techniques
8. 33:23WebView performance summary
9. 35:19Q&A on prefetching

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