🚀 WebView 2.0.0 Released: Multi-Platform Web UI and a Lighter CEF Runtime

📘 Documentation: WebView Documentation
🎮 Playable Demo: Download Windows Demo
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WebView 2.0.0 is now available.

WebView is an HTML/CSS/JavaScript Web UI plugin for Unreal Engine. It can display local or remote pages inside UMG and communicate with Blueprint / C++ through a JavaScript Bridge.

This 2.0.0 release is a major update: WebView is now a Win64 / Mac / Linux / Android / iOS plugin, and desktop CEF Runtime delivery has been redesigned so the plugin package stays lighter and easier to maintain in real projects.

✨ Basic Info

🧩 Plugin: WebView
🏷️ Version: 2.0.0
🛠️ Engine: UE 5.0 - 5.8
💻 Desktop platforms: Win64 / Mac / Linux
📱 Mobile platforms: Android / iOS
🌐 Desktop tech: CEF / Chromium, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, UMG
📲 Mobile tech: Android System WebView / iOS WKWebView

🎯 Use Cases

🎮 In-game HTML menus, HUDs, and overlays
🧭 Main menus, pause menus, and settings screens
🎒 Inventory, shop, quest, event, and announcement pages
📺 Video panels, live event pages, remote content, and embedded web content
🔁 UI that needs JavaScript to Blueprint / C++ communication
🧪 A shared web UI workflow across desktop and mobile projects

🔥 Update Highlights

🌍 Multi-platform runtime support for Win64 / Mac / Linux / Android / iOS
📱 Added Android native WebView support using the system WebView
🍎 Added iOS native WebView support using WKWebView
📦 Smaller plugin package because desktop CEF Runtime is no longer bundled inside the main FAB package
⬇️ Added a Runtime downloader that automatically checks and downloads the required desktop CEF Runtime on first editor entry or first WebView creation
🧰 Manual repair is available from the plugin toolbar for retrying downloads, preparing Runtime files, or fixing damaged installs
🗂️ More reliable mobile local pages: Android extracts packaged Web files into an app-readable directory before loading them with the system WebView, avoiding black screens caused by direct packaged / OBB file access
🔗 Bridge workflow stays the same with WebView.call(...) and WebView.send(...)
🧱 Cleaner platform code with Android and iOS moved into dedicated platform implementation files
🛠️ UE 5.8 packaging support with version-aware toolchain selection in the packaging scripts

Starting with 2.0.0, desktop WebView still uses CEF / Chromium, but the full CEF Runtime is no longer shipped directly inside the main plugin package.