Google explains why Android apps crashed in mass last month In the past month, many users of devices with any version of Android have experienced multiple crashes in a large number of applications. A month later, Google finally released an official report on the reasons for what happened and why this key Android system process brought the operating system to its knees. The Google Workspace team said that application crashes were triggered by “a bug in the experimenting technology and customization of Chrome and WebView”. It is the one to blame for the fact that applications that use WebView to render web content were unstable.