Cant locate webview ids on Webview in mobile native app

Support
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Hello support,

Just recently our dev members added id with the Webview for mobile android native app. But i am not able to locate that with appium:

I was able to find the code block from their PR:

        <WebView
            android:id="@+id/personal_information_intro_web_view"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_marginStart="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin_small"
            android:layout_marginTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
            android:layout_marginEnd="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin_small"
            android:scrollbars="none"
            tools:layout_height="100dp" />

Also attaching the xml of inspector where we only see text locator, no id is present.

#android

Is there something we miss?

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2

It looks like you are just trying to use Inspector. Inspector doesn’t do WebView, on Android give Chrome a try to inspect these elements:

3

is this still a valid suggestion if the app is native app? @wreed

4

Yes, you are talking about Webview, right? In Appium scripts you will need to change context to Webview, no way to do that in Inspector. Use Chrome to inspect Webview elements.

5

i dont think we are talking about the same context. I am looking for attribute of webView in xml bodies (like in the screenshot attached). But will check further the link you shared earlier

6

Ok, my apologies if I’m not understanding. I’m not sure why and element would be named that if it’s not Webview. Make sure as it’s very important to know for automation.

7

Did you check parent elements?