title: Google no longer allows using WebView. What are the alternatives?
body: <p>The new <a href="http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Play Developer Program Policies</a> state that it is no longer allowed to publish web browsers that are based on WebView:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Do not post an app where the primary functionality is to:</p>
    
    <p>Provide a webview of a website not owned or administered by you
    (unless you have permission from the website owner/administrator to do
    so)</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I was thinking of developing a <code>WebView</code>-based web browser but now I see that this is no longer allowed.</p>
  
  <p>Frankly, I find it insane to ask every website in existence for permission to display its content via a WebView based browser.</p>
  
  <p>What are my options? Is there an alternative web kit that is as powerful as WebView?</p>