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Android always has a browser you can’t remove. It’s just not always chrome.

The OS needs a browser engine for its WebView, which many apps etc rely on.

On non Google Android releases these can pretty easily be swapped.

Possibly on Google Android as well.

People are talking about no browser. Not swapping them

Yes, I understand.

I'm explaining that you need a WebView for basic functionality of many apps.

The out of the box experience with Android is that you can not replace the OS browser.

The fact that you can recompile AOSP to have a different browser is not particularly noteworthy, you could do that for any mandatory component.

Nobody is talking about recompiling AOSP.

It's a popup dialog.