It’s been a bit since I’ve attempted to code webview tests, so I don’t exactly recalling how I obtained the HTML tags for my current webview tests. But I thought I pulled them directly from the Appium.app Inspector.
- Appium Server 1.4.16
- Appium.app 1.4.13 (pointing to the server install, only used for Inspector)
- Python Client
- iOS simulator
My process is:
- Launch appium server with -app switch for my simulator location
- Startup Appium.app with the developer settings set to my appium server installation
- Click Inspector button
- Simulator successfully launches, Inspector can discover and report all of the native elements without issue
- Navigate to a hybrid webview
- Refresh Inspector
- It successfully discovers and reports the NATIVE_APP and WEBVIEW_1 context
- Select WEBVIEW_1 and click Change button
- Inspector refreshes, it’s set to WEBVIEW_1 but still only shows native elements, no HTML
- Copy XML and paste, it’s only showing the native elements, no HTML
I’ve tried with an 8.4 and 9.2 simulator with the same results.
Am I crazy that I thought the Inspector used to show the HTML after switching to WEBVIEW context?
Currently I’m opening the web asset in Chrome and inspecting there, which is a usable process thus far.
Even though I’ve enabled web view debugging (I’m guessing this is done with WebView.setWebContentsDebuggingEnabled()), I do not see any change in the XML layout returned from Inspector. All UI elements still appear as Android native elements (on Android API 21).