An alternative to Android"s webview

Does anyone knows an alternative to Android's webview component ? For some reasons, it's functionality's are insufficient for me : I need to be able to catch every single request to some url, when i'm browsing a wml page (wap). Anyway, I need to be able to do stuff that Android's webview is not made for. I thought "hey, let's play with the source code, I'm pretty sure that webviews are using apache.org librairies to access internet". Oh boy was I mistaken. Webviews use native code, and that's where I'm stuck.

getting an error in webview on ice cream sandwich

Error is

java.lang.Throwable: EventHub.removeMessages(int what = 107) is not supported before the WebViewCore is set up.

android webview with https connection and basic auth. How to get this working?

I have researched and researched and researched this until I've gone grey and bald. How on earth do I get a webview to work for a site that needs http basic authentication over an https connection on api level 8+

How to set the initial zoom/width for a webview

I am trying to get the WebView to have similar behavior as the android browser. The browser opens all pages in a way that tries to fit their width to the screen. However, the default behavior of the WebView is to start at a 100% pixel scale so it starts zoomed in on the top left corner.