I am not able to switch to the 'webapp' from native app

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enviroment:
1-windows10-64bits
2-python-2.7.14
3-appium-desktop-1.2.6
4-android7.0(huawei honorv9)

problem:
after tap the sign in button from app, the screen go to the webpage which require me to log in.
but I am not able to switch to the [webview] or [webapp].

code pieces:

#find the sign_in btn
amazon_sign_in = self.driver.find_element_by_android_uiautomator(‘new UiSelector().text(“Sign in with Amazon”)’)

#click the sign_in btn and it will direct me to the amazon log in page
amazon_sign_in.click()

#wait for 20 seconds so that the full log in page loaded
sleep(20)

#print the current activity
print (self.driver.current_activity)

#print the list of all the contexts
print (self.driver.contexts)

#print the current context
print (self.driver.current_context)

what I got from the command line by the print:

com.tencent.mtt.MainActivity

[u’NATIVE_APP’]

NATIVE_APP

which seems that I do not have the webview from the printed result.
anyone who have experience for this issue, please help me out and appreciated very much in advance.

webview failed to switch
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If it is a hybrid app, uiautomator viewer will not work to see the elements.

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Hi GH_QA

thanks so much for your valuable comments.

just got update from dev, it is pure native app.
and it opens a web app but not webview inside the app.

any good suggestion?

Br
Sean

4

You must change the context so that when you switch to the appium web application, read the web view.

You must create a method so that each time you have an appium web view, detect if the view is native or webview

5

In android OS version 6 and above , web_view seems to be disappear from the context , although in UIAutomatorViewer you can view that it is in WebView class.

Hence to conclude , directly automate Hybrid apps in android version 6 and above with UIAutomatorViewer without context switching.

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Hi Prasad_Madge

if I use the android6.0.1 Samsung S6 edge, then I can print out both:
[u’NATIVE_APP’, u’WEBVIEW_Terrace’]

but on android7.0, no webview context.

I am not quite understood you suggestions since my testing app is pure native app, how to “directly automate Hybrid apps in android version 6 and above with UIAutomatorViewer without context switching.”

Br
Sean

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If you are getting webview context on android version 6 then you need to switch to webview first to automate element inside it.

If it does not shows webview context , although being inside webview class , then you can automate it directly as on android version 7 in your case without worrying about contexts switching.

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okay, while on android7, you can see that from the uiautomatorviewer screen I attached, there is no way I can locate the elements like: Email textline and password textline, and that is the problem in front of me.
any suggestion for how to slove this situaton?

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Still if the elements are not having any unique properties you can use xpath having properties with class and index . This will work.

Or you can use xpath axes to target your element with respect to some unique element.

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Hello
I still face this issue, anyone has resolved it?

android - 7.1.2
appium - 1.18.2