Appium keeps connecting detached WebView

[jhyun123]

Hi!

While using Appium for Hybrid app, we found that Appium keeps connecting to detached WebView using chromedriver.

Steps:

1. Start Activity 1 contains WebView
2. Switch context to WebView and do some testing…
3. Start Activity 2 doesn’t contains WebView
4. Back to Activity 1 contains WebView
5. Switch context to WebView, but can’t find element.

I think followings are related issue, but not sure:

Reusing existent chromedriver session gets hang [Appium 1.3.5]

Hi everybody. I’m using Appium 1.3.5 to automate an Android App. I have an app that needs to interact with a webview, so I need to switch between NATIVE and WEBVIEW contexts. The first time I switch to the WEBVIEW context all works fine, but when I switch back to NATIVE context and then switch again to WEBVIEW context, chromedriver doesn’t respond. In the appium log, I can see: Connecting to chrome-backed webview Found existing Chromedriver for context 'WEBVIEW_com.example.myapp'. Using it.…

Unable to reconnect to chromedriver when switching back from native to webview

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Thank you!