Google Chrome Devtools broken when inspecting Android Webview

Question

This worked well and the problem started happenning about two weeks ago.

I run a Chrome on a Windows 10 computer. I have already tried uninstalling, and then reinstalli

Answer 1

As explained in Kayce Basques's answer, this is due to a problem with versions of Chrome since 63.

The solution is to use an older version of Chromium.

Here are the download links for the the latest version of Chromium (version 62.0.3202.94, branch base position 499098) which support it:

• macOS: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-snapshots/o/Mac%2F499098%2Fchrome-mac.zip?generation=1504230238091965&alt=media
• Windows 64 bits: https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/chromium-browser-snapshots/o/Win_x64%2F499095%2Fchrome-win32.zip?generation=1504230103809077&alt=media

Feel free to edit this post to add the links for other platforms.

Answer 2

Check out: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-chrome-developer-tools/s47cbyLKvxA

I haven't digested the thread fully, but I think it's due to a deprecation in Chrome that is outside of the DevTools team's control.

Please let us know if this is indeed the same issue that you're seeing.