In an ideal world, all Android applications would use Custom Tabs over in-app browsers (WebViews). Google is presently making it more apparent while you’re “running” a Chrome Custom Tab (CCT).
With Chrome 104 or prior, you’d see “Powered by Chrome” at the bottom of the three-dot overflow menu. Version 105 of the Google browser is carrying out new “Running in Chrome” text for Custom Tabs that is joined by a logo. (The latter element is the full color icon and a monochrome version would assist with making it less distracting.)
It shows up in all applications that use Chrome Custom Tabs, and is somewhat more user-friendly and obvious than the previous description.
Google suggests developers use Custom Tabs if their “app directs people to URLs outside [their] domain.” Applications can customize the toolbar with their own button and menu items, while it gives “support for the same web platform features and capabilities as the browsers.” One of the greatest benefits is the way clients remain signed in to similar locales so they don’t need to do that again.
Significant third-party apps from Twitter to Slack use Custom Tabs on Android, while Instagram is an especially intolerable holdout. For a period, the Google app for Search results and the Discover feed was experimenting with its own built-in browser, yet that hopes to have been deserted. It will ideally not return.
Chrome 105 isn’t yet broadly carried out toward the beginning of this current week.
