This issue is not reproducible on 51.0.2704.34 on this device.

Logs & video @ http://go/chrome-androidlogs1/6/608397

E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): Process: com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping, PID: 4141
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to create application com.amazon.mShop.MShopApplication: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Context is not and does not wrap an Activity
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4553)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:147)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1342)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:135)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5253)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:372)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:899)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:694)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Context is not and does not wrap an Activity
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at org.chromium.ui.base.ActivityWindowAndroid.<init>(ActivityWindowAndroid.java:70)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.getWindowAndroid(AwContents.java:982)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.setNewAwContents(AwContents.java:1020)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.<init>(AwContents.java:794)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at org.chromium.android_webview.AwContents.<init>(AwContents.java:715)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium.initForReal(WebViewChromium.java:271)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium.access$100(WebViewChromium.java:82)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium$1.run(WebViewChromium.java:255)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium$WebViewChromiumRunQueue.drainQueue(WebViewChromium.java:108)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium$WebViewChromiumRunQueue$1.run(WebViewChromium.java:95)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at org.chromium.base.ThreadUtils.runOnUiThread(ThreadUtils.java:148)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium$WebViewChromiumRunQueue.addTask(WebViewChromium.java:92)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.android.webview.chromium.WebViewChromium.init(WebViewChromium.java:252)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:548)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:483)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:466)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:453)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.webkit.WebView.<init>(WebView.java:443)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.amazon.mobile.mash.util.WebViewSuspensionPolicy$WebViewTimerController.<init>(WebViewSuspensionPolicy.java:60)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.amazon.mobile.mash.util.WebViewSuspensionPolicy$WebViewTimerController.<init>(WebViewSuspensionPolicy.java:55)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.amazon.mobile.mash.util.WebViewSuspensionPolicy.establish(WebViewSuspensionPolicy.java:46)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.amazon.mobile.mash.MASHApplicationFactory.setInstance(MASHApplicationFactory.java:27)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.amazon.mShop.AmazonApplication.onCreate(AmazonApplication.java:171)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at com.amazon.mShop.MShopApplication.onCreate(MShopApplication.java:47)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.app.Instrumentation.callApplicationOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1011)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleBindApplication(ActivityThread.java:4550)
E/AndroidRuntime( 4141): 	... 9 more

responsible CL
 https://codereview.chromium.org/1569643002

Oh that one is mine, probably..

Damn it typo..

https://codereview.chromium.org/1932753004/diff/20001/android_webview/java/src/org/chromium/android_webview/AwContents.java#newcode983

That line should be WindowAndroid (not ActivityWindowAndroid)

Actually no, I totally did the wrong thing in both cases. Meh, this passed all tests :(

 Issue 608403  has been merged into this issue.

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/1fc9c657810e48b9f4677cf4d5dd46027894a64c

commit 1fc9c657810e48b9f4677cf4d5dd46027894a64c
Author: boliu <boliu@chromium.org>
Date: Mon May 02 18:58:08 2016

aw: Fix activityWrapsContext condition

Totally did the opposite thing for r390716. Fix it!

BUG= 608397 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/1937233002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#391015}

[modify] https://crrev.com/1fc9c657810e48b9f4677cf4d5dd46027894a64c/android_webview/java/src/org/chromium/android_webview/AwContents.java

Same issue observed in Google Play newsstand and crash is observed .
Logs & Video attached => http://go/chrome-androidlogs1/6/608397. Please verify these issues .

Yeah same crash.

fwiw, we are getting a list of apps that passes in the application context into webview constructor. This list is potentially useful :o

Apps Observing the crash with the same stack are listed below :
1.Cnn news
2.Fox news.
3.ebay.
4.NBC News.
5.Google now.
6.Play newstand.
7.Amazon Shopping.

Verified this issue not reproducible on ZenPhone (LRX21V) with latest web view 52.0.2723.0. Tested NBC news, Ebay and the above apps are not crashing any more .