Are you sure you are using a debug version of the application?? Are you also sure you have enabled webview debugging in your app’s code like this.
Yes, I am just trying to open google site on android chrome browser, but not able to switch to google site page.
Please paste Appium log so that we can help you…
@Hassan_Radi, I think issue lies in UIAutomator, it does not detect WEBVIEW which are targeted to lesser version android 4.4.4. so in that case it wont show you WEBVIEW. u can use selendroid mode.
Thanks,
Priyank Shah
He mentioned that he was using Android Kitkat 
Hello, i have the same issue until now Jan 5 2014.
I used:
- Appium 1.2.4.1 (latest version until now 1.3.4.1 has a serious problem with findElement funtions in Android so I dont use it)
- Java client 2.1.0
- Real device Android 4.2.2 - API 17
HOPE Appium 1.3.5 will be better.
Hi ,
The following method setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled supports only in API Level 19 as per Android Documentation .
Any idea how to implement it on lower version of Android.
Android Documentation:
public static void setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled (boolean enabled)
Added in API level 19
Enables debugging of web contents (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) loaded into any WebViews of this application. This flag can be enabled in order to facilitate debugging of web layouts and JavaScript code running inside WebViews. Please refer to WebView documentation for the debugging guide. The default is false.
Parameters
enabled whether to enable web contents debugging
Thanks
Siva
Hi ,
The following method setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled supports only in API Level 19 as per Android Documentation .
Any idea how to implement it on lower version of Android.
Android Documentation:
public static void setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled (boolean enabled)
Added in API level 19
Enables debugging of web contents (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) loaded into any WebViews of this application. This flag can be enabled in order to facilitate debugging of web layouts and JavaScript code running inside WebViews. Please refer to WebView documentation for the debugging guide. The default is false.
Parameters
enabled whether to enable web contents debugging
Thanks
Siva
You can’t. As it is restricted to API 19+ only. You will have to use Selendroid mode to work with webviews for devices with API less than 19.
Thanks a lot @Hassan_Radi … I need a other help from yourside .
When i use Selendroid mode with Appium version 1.3.4 and with selendroid port as 8080, then i am getting the following error .
I dont have any port running with 8080.
My app has a INTERNET persmission in the manifest file as well…
Can you please throw some light and help me on this issue. I have been struggling hard for the past 2 days.
info: Welcome to Appium v1.1.0 (REV e433bbc31511f199287db7724e1ce692bcb32117)
info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
info: socket.io started
info: Non-default server args: {“app”:"/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk",“androidPackage”:“com.myntra.android”,“androidActivity”:“com.myntra.android.activities.LoginRegisterActivity”,“deviceName”:“Emulator”,“platformName”:“Android”,“platformVersion”:“4.2”,“automationName”:“Selendroid”,“defaultCommandTimeout”:7200}
info: Responding to client with success: {“status”:0,“value”:{“build”:{“version”:“1.1.0”,“revision”:“e433bbc31511f199287db7724e1ce692bcb32117”}}}
debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/status
GET /wd/hub/status 200 6ms - 143b
debug: Request received with params: {}
debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/status
info: Responding to client with success: {“status”:0,“value”:{“build”:{“version”:“1.1.0”,“revision”:“e433bbc31511f199287db7724e1ce692bcb32117”}}}
debug: Request received with params: {}
GET /wd/hub/status 200 1ms - 143b
debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/status
info: Responding to client with success: {“status”:0,“value”:{“build”:{“version”:“1.1.0”,“revision”:“e433bbc31511f199287db7724e1ce692bcb32117”}}}
debug: Request received with params: {}
debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/sessions
debug: Request received with params: {}
debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/session
debug: Request received with params: {“desiredCapabilities”:{“platformName”:“Android”,“platformVersion”:“4.2”,“newCommandTimeout”:“999999”,“automationName”:“Selendroid”,“deviceName”:“Emulator”}}
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” devices
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 wait-for-device
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “echo ‘ready’”
debug: Checking app cert for /tmp/selendroid.com.myntra.android.apk: java -jar “/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/android/helpers/verify.jar” “/tmp/selendroid.com.myntra.android.apk”
debug: Checking app cert for /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk: java -jar “/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/android/helpers/verify.jar” “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk”
debug: App already signed.
debug: zipAlignApk: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/zipalign” -f 4 “/tmp/selendroid.com.myntra.android.apk” “/var/folders/y8/v8mswzvj24q92_y6tzb94yysqm0c7g/T/appium115112-48835-d234v5.tmp”
debug: App already signed.
debug: zipAlignApk: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/zipalign” -f 4 “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk” “/var/folders/y8/v8mswzvj24q92_y6tzb94yysqm0c7g/T/appium115112-48835-qlpbd8.tmp”
debug: Getting install status for com.myntra.android.selendroid
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “pm list packages -3 com.myntra.android.selendroid”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “getprop persist.sys.language”
debug: Current device language: en
debug: java -jar “/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/android/helpers/strings_from_apk.jar” “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk” “/tmp/com.myntra.android” en
debug: java -jar “/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/android/helpers/strings_from_apk.jar” “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk” “/tmp/com.myntra.android”
debug: Exception in thread “main” brut.androlib.AndrolibException: Could not decode arsc file
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:54)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResPackagesFromApk(AndrolibResources.java:540)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.loadMainPkg(AndrolibResources.java:76)
at brut.androlib.res.AndrolibResources.getResTable(AndrolibResources.java:68)
at strings.StringsXML.run(StringsXML.java:84)
at strings.StringsXML.main(StringsXML.java:151)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Expected: 0x001c0001, got: 0x00000000
at brut.util.ExtDataInput.skipCheckInt(ExtDataInput.java:48)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.StringBlock.read(StringBlock.java:43)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readPackage(ARSCDecoder.java:100)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.readTable(ARSCDecoder.java:81)
at brut.androlib.res.decoder.ARSCDecoder.decode(ARSCDecoder.java:49)
… 5 more
debug: Not uninstalling app since server not started with --full-reset
debug: Checking app cert for /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk: java -jar “/Applications/Appium.app/C
GET /wd/hub/status 200 0ms - 143b
info: Responding to client with success: {“status”:0,“value”:[]}
GET /wd/hub/sessions 200 1ms - 32b
info: Using local app from command line: /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk
info: Creating new appium session 263f0537-9cdd-492f-b974-ca0820243c1c
info: Starting selendroid server
info: Checking whether selendroid is built yet
info: Selendroid server exists!
info: Preparing device for session
info: Checking whether app is actually present
info: Checking whether adb is present
info: [ADB] Using adb from /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb
info: Trying to find a connected android device
info: [ADB] Getting connected devices…
info: [ADB] 1 device(s) connected
info: Setting device id to 4d0061964e7f3177
info: [ADB] Waiting for device to be ready and to respond to shell commands (timeout = 5)
info: Starting logcat capture
info: Rebuilt selendroid apk exists, doing nothing
info: Rebuilt selendroid server already exists, no need to rebuild it with a new manifest
info: Checking signed status of /tmp/selendroid.com.myntra.android.apk
info: Checking signed status of /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk
info: Zip-aligning /tmp/selendroid.com.myntra.android.apk
info: Checking whether zipalign is present
info: [ADB] Using zipalign from /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/zipalign
info: Zip-aligning /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk
info: Checking whether zipalign is present
info: [ADB] Using zipalign from /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/zipalign
info: [ADB] App is installed
info: Rebuilt selendroid is already installed
info: No strings.xml for language ‘en’, getting default strings.xml
warn: Error getting strings.xml from apk
info: Zip-aligning /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk
info: Checking whether zipalign is present
info: [ADB] Using zipalign from /Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/zipalign
info: MD5 for app is 396704003712edcec12bc62efd3f16f4
info: [ADB] App is not installed
info: Removing any old apks
info: Uninstalling com.myntra.android
info: [ADB] Forwarding system:8080 to device:8080
info: Writing dumpsys output to /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/.dumpsys.log
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info:
ontents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/android/helpers/verify.jar” “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk”
debug: App already signed.
debug: zipAlignApk: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/build-tools/19.0.1/zipalign” -f 4 “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk” “/var/folders/y8/v8mswzvj24q92_y6tzb94yysqm0c7g/T/appium115112-48835-d2yzo1.tmp”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “ls /data/local/tmp/396704003712edcec12bc62efd3f16f4.apk”
debug: Getting install status for com.myntra.android
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “pm list packages -3 com.myntra.android”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “mkdir -p /data/local/tmp/”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “ls /data/local/tmp/*.apk”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell rm “/data/local/tmp/15a486aac1cbb34b9465c67d4cbd2de4.apk”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 push “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Downloads/Myntra-Android-qa.apk” /data/local/tmp/396704003712edcec12bc62efd3f16f4.apk
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “am force-stop com.myntra.android”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 uninstall com.myntra.android
debug: App was not uninstalled, maybe it wasn’t on device?
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “pm install -r /data/local/tmp/396704003712edcec12bc62efd3f16f4.apk”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080
debug: Pushing unlock helper app to device…
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 install “/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/build/unlock_apk/unlock_apk-debug.apk”
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “dumpsys window”
debug: Screen already unlocked, continuing.
debug: executing: “/Users/c.sivasubramanian/Documents/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20140702/sdk/platform-tools/adb” -s 4d0061964e7f3177 shell “am instrument -e main_activity ‘com.myntra.android.activities.LoginRegisterActivity’ com.myntra.android.selendroid/io.selendroid.ServerInstrumentation”
error: Failed to start an Appium session, err was: Error: Waited 20 secs for selendroid server and it never showed up
Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Making http request with opts: {“url”:“http://localhost:8080/wd/hub/status",“method”:"GET”}
info: Cleaning up appium session
info: Error: Waited 20 secs for selendroid server and it never showed up
at /Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/android/selendroid.js:261:14
at Request._callback (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/lib/devices/common.js:104:5)
at self.callback (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/request/request.js:121:22)
at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at ClientRequest.self.clientErrorHandler (/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/node_modules/request/request.js:230:10)
at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at Socket.socketOnEnd [as onend] (http.js:1568:9)
at Socket.g (events.js:180:16)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
at _stream_readable.js:919:16
info: Responding to client with error: {“status”:33,“value”:{“message”:“A new session could not be created. (Original error: Waited 20 secs for selendroid server and it never showed up)”,“origValue”:“Waited 20 secs for selendroid server and it never showed up”},“sessionId”:null}
POST /wd/hub/session 500 35945ms - 268b
debug: Appium request initiated at /wd/hub/status
info: Responding to client with success: {“status”:0,“value”:{“build”:{“version”:“1.1.0”,“revision”:“e433bbc31511f199287db7724e1ce692bcb32117”}}}
debug: Request received with params: {}
GET /wd/hub/status 200 2ms - 143b
Are you sure you are using the correct Appium version, as your log mentions that you are using version 1.1.0 of the Appium server.
I recommend updating to the latest Appium version and trying again as old Appium versions starting from 1.1 were using an older bundled version of Selendroid that has been known to cause Showstopper issues when starting the server and signing the app.
java version “1.8.0_25” Java™ SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b18) Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)
Appium 1.3.4.1
Android SDK ro.build.version.sdk=21…
Device used :- Nexus 7, 5.0.2
Hi,
I am using following code to get textual data from android.webkit.webview, but i m failing. Please help me .
Code used :- List L1=(By.id(“com.zimbra.client.zimbox:id/conversation_WebView”)); List L2=(By.className(“android.webkit.WebView”));
L1.get(index).gettext() is not returning me text.
Earlier we implemented some appium test for a webview. All was working. When we revisit it recently, it stopped working and we got exactly same issue. But we haven’t changed anything related to the test. The configurations are all the same and the Appium version is 1.3.7.
The only thing we can think of is we did update the Android SDK to API 22. But after we downgrade it to API 21, it still behave the same. Does any body know what might be the problem?
Another thing, the issue only occurs on the emulator (no matter which), but it works on the device.
For me its not working on both emulator and real device for android. What about the API level 19 is it working fine for u guys. For API level 19 also the webdebuggingcontent should be true?.
No everything under API 21 is not working. And the last answer yes
I have The same problem with Appium 1.3.7, Selenium-java-2.45.0.jar, java-client-1.5.0.jar
For me it happens on different Android devices randomly…
Sometimes fresh install of the app on the device and putting the same app in the test projects Application folder works. sometimes just renaming the app works. But nothing consistent.
I still can’t find a pattern when the AppiumDriver finds the WEBVIEW context and when it doiesn’t.
It seems it is an old issue and has no fix yet?
Thanks for any help.
A
It seems if we put a very long wait before switching the context, the webview context will appear. But it really takes ages, up to two three minutes on devices.
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What works for me is to install the app on the phone first and run it once, only after that run the test.
Thats the case with Samsung S4 at least.
+1, happens also on iOS, related to:
Seems to be solved in Appium 1.4.3 https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/5222