Unable to find webView in iOS Hybrid App_xCode9_Appium1.7.1

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Hi Team,

I am working with iOS Hybrid App, I need to test app on Real device with Latest iOS versions 10.3.3 and above.

Currently when I lands on web view(it opens within the App not in safari) in the app and wait time almost 25-30 seconds still I am unable to find a webView in getContextHandles() onscreen webView displays under 5 seconds, it is returning only nativeView

A. Tried to launch iOS-webkit-debug proxy+Appium from capabilities - did not worked

  1. Capabilities.setCapability(“startIWDP”, true);
  2. Capabilities.setCapability(“webkitDebugProxyPort”, “27753”);

B. Tried to launch Manually iOS-webkit-debug proxy+Appium- did not worked

  1. Start Appium server: appium --webkit-debug-proxy-port 27753
  2. Start iOS-webKit-proxy: ios_webkit_debug_proxy -c myDeviceUDID:27753 -d

C. Tried Manual proxy- did not worked

  1. launch iOS-webKit-proxy: ios_webkit_debug_proxy -c myDeviceUDID:27753 -d
  2. In App Navigate to the webContent page (it opens within the App not in safari)
  3. Open url http://localhost:27753/json
  4. Empty response - {}

And when I try to launch safari and go to any random website, url http://localhost:27753/json shows response
[{
“devtoolsFrontendUrl”: “/devtools/devtools.html?ws=localhost:27753/devtools/page/1”,
“faviconUrl”: “”,
“thumbnailUrl”: “/thumb/xyz/”,
“title”: “xyzzy”,
“url”: “xyzzy”,
“webSocketDebuggerUrl”: “ws://localhost:27753/devtools/page/1”,
“appId”: “PID:xyz”
}]

Can someone please help me to understand what exactly I am missing ?

Below are the versions on which I am working
iOS: 10.3.3
xCode: 9
Appium: 1.7.1
Java client: 5.0.3
selenium: 3.6.0
ios_webkit_debug_proxy 1.8

I have validated iOS_webkit_proxy connection with the help of ticket https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/9014

Thanks
Masood

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@Masoodmd0786 Did you get any solution for the same ? Pls share.

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Yes Using sauce real devices on cloud and with local simulators…

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So still no solution on real connected devices then.

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Created multiple tickets for local but no luck, cloud real device/ local simulator is best option to get started with scripting and mean while try troubleshooting…

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Buddy, start working with local simulators or cloud real device… I have been in mobile industry since it was started from almost 3-4 years and per my experience local device is not feasible you will face network and bunch of issues… mobile automation always needs to be tested using cloud environments

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Agreed, but we have to use only physical iOS devices. And I hope it must have an answer. Still looking out for solution.

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@Masoodmd0786 :- This issue resolved i am getting both the views in Physical devices. The issue lies with the developer certificate and the provisioning profile. Certificate should be developer not the distributed.

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Awesome, I have added local device support as a backlog item, will try with dev cert and check with you for any issues…

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I am trying to automate a hybrid app(developed using ionic framework) on iOS device. But I am not sure which locators to use. I an trying to access elements using ‘by.css’, but that gives error saying “Locator strategy : css selector is not valid for this session”. Please provide inputs to the same.

Configuration : Appium : 1.7.2 Protractor :5.3.0 Xcode : 9.2 iOS : 11.2.2 Device : iPhone 6+ MacOS : 10.12.6

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Are you able to get the Web and Native context ?
If yes, try passing Xpath. Pls share the Appium logs to verify the exact issue.