Appium and Wkwebview

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Hi Team,

Currently we use Appium for our IOS Automation and working fine with webview until IOS 7 devices. But for IOS 8 devices, its not working fine with wkwebview.

Can you please let me know if Appium supports for ios 8 devices with wkwebview?

Amy help on this will be very much grateful.

Thanks,
Vidhya

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Interesting, @jlipps is it a desirable feature?

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Thanks for the response,

Yes we are using IOS8 devices and wkwebview, so that i want to know if anyone has any idea how to try automation in it.

PLease let me know if you need more info on it.

Thanks,
Vidhya

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does wkwebview not support the remote debugger? that’s what we use to talk to the webview

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+1 … Appium doesn’t seem to be aware of wkwebview contexts. I can interact with these webviews with Safari’s web inspector however. This is a blocker for testing hybrid webapps.

Does being able to access the wkwebview with Safari’s web inspector imply that the remote debugger is supported? Possibly related:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25200116/how-to-show-the-inspector-within-your-wkwebview-based-desktop-app

[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25871586/how-to-debug-javascript-code-inside-a-wkwebview]

It probably doesn’t matter, but I’m using Appium-Python_Client 0.20.

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I’m blocked by this as well. Are there any plans for Appium to support wkwebview?

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Not able to inspect WKwebview in appium.
Any solution to work with WKwebview with iOS 11 ?

Using Appium 1.7.2 server
iOS 11.2
Xcode 9.2

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Hello,

Any update here?
We too are using latest Appium(Server 1.7.2) with iOS 11.2 for automation.
It does’nt seem to recognize html elements inside the WkWebView.

Regards

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Hi Guys, Do you have any further update on this? Thanks

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Have you tried with appium 1.8.1? I remember that on iOS (with Apppium 1.7.2) I couldn’t see any content in webView.

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I am unable to see wkwebviews on iOS 11 with appium 1.10.0.Can any one please tell me how to make it work?