因为最近有个需求是在系统应用中使用 WebView，所以配置了 android:sharedUserId="android.uid.system"， 让应用共享系统进程。但是测试的时候就 crash 了，我表示有点方...错误日志是这样的：
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: For security reasons, WebView is not allowed in privileged processes
at android.webkit.WebViewFactory.getProvider(WebViewFactory.java:96)
at android.webkit.WebView.getFactory(WebView.java:2194)
at android.webkit.WebView.ensureProviderCreated(WebView.java:2189)
at android.webkit.WebView.setOverScrollMode(WebView.java:2248)
at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:3588)
at android.view.View.<init>(View.java:3682)
at android.view.ViewGroup.<init>(ViewGroup.java:497)
at android.widget.AbsoluteLayout.<init>(AbsoluteLayout.java:55)
at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:544)
at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:489)
at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:472)
at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:459)
at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:449)
就是说为了安全性考虑，不允许在享有特权的进程也就是系统进程里面使用 WebView，异常是在 WebView 初始化的时候抛出的，想要解决这个问题还要看源码（Read the fucking source code）。
这是 Android 5.1（API 22） 里面的类 WebViewFactory 的 getProvider 方法源码：
static WebViewFactoryProvider getProvider() {
synchronized (sProviderLock) {
// For now the main purpose of this function (and the factory abstraction) is to keep
// us honest and minimize usage of WebView internals when binding the proxy.
if (sProviderInstance != null) return sProviderInstance;
final int uid = android.os.Process.myUid();
if (uid == android.os.Process.ROOT_UID || uid == android.os.Process.SYSTEM_UID) {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
"For security reasons, WebView is not allowed in privileged processes");
}
Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW, "WebViewFactory.getProvider()");
try {
Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW, "WebViewFactory.loadNativeLibrary()");
loadNativeLibrary();
Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW);
Class<WebViewFactoryProvider> providerClass;
Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW, "WebViewFactory.getFactoryClass()");
try {
providerClass = getFactoryClass();
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
Log.e(LOGTAG, "error loading provider", e);
throw new AndroidRuntimeException(e);
} finally {
Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW);
}
StrictMode.ThreadPolicy oldPolicy = StrictMode.allowThreadDiskReads();
Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW, "providerClass.newInstance()");
try {
try {
sProviderInstance = providerClass.getConstructor(WebViewDelegate.class)
.newInstance(new WebViewDelegate());
} catch (Exception e) {
sProviderInstance = providerClass.newInstance();
}
if (DEBUG) Log.v(LOGTAG, "Loaded provider: " + sProviderInstance);
return sProviderInstance;
} catch (Exception e) {
Log.e(LOGTAG, "error instantiating provider", e);
throw new AndroidRuntimeException(e);
} finally {
Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW);
StrictMode.setThreadPolicy(oldPolicy);
}
} finally {
Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW);
}
}
}
可以看出，首次使用时，系统会进行检查，如果 UID 是 root 进程或者系统进程，直接抛出异常。sProviderInstance 是 WebViewFactoryProvider 的对象，主要提供创建 WebView 内核的机制。WebView在 Android 4.4 之前使用的是 Webkit 内核，在 Android 4.4 以后切换到了 Chromium 内核。Google 使用了工厂方法模式，优雅地切换 WebView 内核的实现方式。我们注意到只有 sProviderInstance 为空的时候系统才去检查进程，然后创建 sProviderInstance对象。所以这给了我们一个启发 ---- 能不能一开始就主动创建 sProviderInstance 对象，把她塞到 WebViewFactory 类里面，从而欺骗 API 绕过系统检查呢？
下面就要用到 Hook 的思想了，首先要找到一个合适的点，静态变量、单例是最佳选择，刚刚好 sProviderInstance 是静态的。那就开始拿它开刀，看看系统是怎么创建 sProviderInstance 的，我们自己也模仿它这么做。其实系统也是通过反射来做的，这是 getFactoryClass 的源码，我们来看看。
private static Class<WebViewFactoryProvider> getFactoryClass() throws ClassNotFoundException {
Application initialApplication = AppGlobals.getInitialApplication();
try {
// First fetch the package info so we can log the webview package version.
String packageName = getWebViewPackageName();
sPackageInfo = initialApplication.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(packageName, 0);
Log.i(LOGTAG, "Loading " + packageName + " version " + sPackageInfo.versionName +
" (code " + sPackageInfo.versionCode + ")");
// Construct a package context to load the Java code into the current app.
Context webViewContext = initialApplication.createPackageContext(packageName,
Context.CONTEXT_INCLUDE_CODE | Context.CONTEXT_IGNORE_SECURITY);
initialApplication.getAssets().addAssetPath(
webViewContext.getApplicationInfo().sourceDir);
ClassLoader clazzLoader = webViewContext.getClassLoader();
Trace.traceBegin(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW, "Class.forName()");
try {
return (Class<WebViewFactoryProvider>) Class.forName(CHROMIUM_WEBVIEW_FACTORY, true,
clazzLoader);
} finally {
Trace.traceEnd(Trace.TRACE_TAG_WEBVIEW);
}
} catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
// If the package doesn't exist, then try loading the null WebView instead.
// If that succeeds, then this is a device without WebView support; if it fails then
// swallow the failure, complain that the real WebView is missing and rethrow the
// original exception.
try {
return (Class<WebViewFactoryProvider>) Class.forName(NULL_WEBVIEW_FACTORY);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e2) {
// Ignore.
}
Log.e(LOGTAG, "Chromium WebView package does not exist", e);
throw new AndroidRuntimeException(e);
}
}
返回值是一个 WebViewFactoryProvider 的类，可以看到系统会首先加载 CHROMIUM_WEBVIEW_FACTORY，也就是使用 Chrome 内核的 WebView。这个方法是静态的，我们就可以用反射调用了。整个创建 sProviderInstance 的过程都可以用反射搞定，其他细节就不多说了。需要注意的是 API 21 以上在使用 WebView 时系统才会检查进程。但是 API 22 和 22 以上源码还是有差别，这里只是方法名字的改动，我们根据版本处理一下就好。
public static void hookWebView() {
int sdkInt = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
try {
Class<?> factoryClass = Class.forName("android.webkit.WebViewFactory");
Field field = factoryClass.getDeclaredField("sProviderInstance");
field.setAccessible(true);
Object sProviderInstance = field.get(null);
if (sProviderInstance != null) {
log.debug("sProviderInstance isn't null");
return;
}
Method getProviderClassMethod;
if (sdkInt > 22) {
getProviderClassMethod = factoryClass.getDeclaredMethod("getProviderClass");
} else if (sdkInt == 22) {
getProviderClassMethod = factoryClass.getDeclaredMethod("getFactoryClass");
} else {
log.info("Don't need to Hook WebView");
return;
}
getProviderClassMethod.setAccessible(true);
Class<?> providerClass = (Class<?>) getProviderClassMethod.invoke(factoryClass);
Class<?> delegateClass = Class.forName("android.webkit.WebViewDelegate");
Constructor<?> providerConstructor = providerClass.getConstructor(delegateClass);
if (providerConstructor != null) {
providerConstructor.setAccessible(true);
Constructor<?> declaredConstructor = delegateClass.getDeclaredConstructor();
declaredConstructor.setAccessible(true);
sProviderInstance = providerConstructor.newInstance(declaredConstructor.newInstance());
log.debug("sProviderInstance:{}", sProviderInstance);
field.set("sProviderInstance", sProviderInstance);
}
log.debug("Hook done!");
} catch (Throwable e) {
log.error(e);
}
}
在使用 WebView 之前，我们先 Hook WebViewFactory，创建 sProviderInstance 对象，从而绕过系统检查。经过测试，该方案完美解决了我们的问题 ~
