Appium only show native app context, is does not recognises the webview context for android app

[michalmikolajczyk]

+1, happens also on iOS, related to:

Unable able to switch to WebView on real android device or on a simulator

WEBVIEW context is not found for iOS app

I am experiencing an issue with Appium and iOS simulator, where a call to contexts() returns only NATIVE_APP, and no webview. This happens often, but not always, i.e. sometimes it runs correctly. In all cases, he webview is visible in the iOS simulator, and if the test is re-ran, it sometimes finds it. I never experienced it on XCODE 6.1 and Appium 1.3.7, but since upgrading XCode and / or Appium (I tried both), it happens often. I will post the full log below, including two cases, the first o…

Can't switch context to webview

Hello I am testing a native app in appium and i’d like to test a part in the app where it redirects into a webview. In the appium inspector i can see the objects in the webview but can’t click on them. In the inspector i see only “no context” and can’t switch to a webview context like the tutorial explains. When i try to use driver.getContextHandles() i get an exception. What can i do in order to test the webview part in my app?