Previous Topic, In the tutorial we are going to learn Automating Hybrid Apps with Appium. Before going further lets understand with is Hybrid Apps.

In automation testing point of view, while automation the hybrid app, we come up with two approaches, native app and web view. When ever we have to switch from native to web platform. We need to change the context and continue with scripting or execution.

How to change context from Native to Web view in Hybrid app?

During the automation creation or execution, whenever there is a need to change the context, it can be performed getContextHandles() method, within the driver instance which returns a Set contains all the context within the hybrid app.

If we want to switch to any context, we can iterate and get in to webview and perform the action that is done with in web application.

Automating Hybrid Apps with Appium

• Launch the hybrid application “WebView Test” on your device.
• Click to website icon on the top right.
• Enter the website name “facebook.com”
• Input the User name in the user text box
• Enter the password under password textbox.
• Close the application.

public static DesiredCapabilities capabilities=null;
public AndroidDriver<AndroidElement> adriver=null;

File app =new File(System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\apks\\WEBVIEWTEST.apk");
		
capabilities =new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName","Redmi");			//capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "Chrome");
capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion","9 PKQ1.181203.001");			capabilities.setCapability("platformName","Android");			capabilities.setCapability("chromedriverExecutable","C:\\Users\\XXXXX\\Desktop\\Eclipse_Installer\\GeckoDriver\\chromedriver.exe");
capabilities.setCapability("noReset","true");
capabilities.setCapability("fullReset","false");						capabilities.setCapability("appium:chromeOptions",ImmutableMap.of("w3c",false));	
capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());
			
try {
System.out.println("Opening Hybrid Application");
adriver = new AndroidDriver<AndroidElement>(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities); 
Thread.sleep(3000);
AndroidElement browsrIcon =adriver.findElement(MobileBy.AndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().resourceId(\"com.snc.test.webview2:id/action_go_website\")"));
browsrIcon.click();
				
AndroidElement inputUrl=adriver.findElement(MobileBy.AndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().resourceId(\"com.snc.test.webview2:id/input_url\")"));	
			
inputUrl.sendKeys("facebook.com");			
Thread.sleep(2000);
				
AndroidElement goButton=adriver.findElement(MobileBy.AndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().resourceId(\"android:id/button1\")"));				
				
goButton.click();
	
Set<String> contextNames =adriver.getContextHandles();				
Iterator<String> itr=contextNames.iterator();			
while(itr.hasNext()){
				
System.out.println(itr.next());	
}
				
adriver.context((String) contextNames.toArray()[1]); 				adriver.findElement(By.id("email")).sendKeys("code2test.com");				adriver.findElement(By.id("pass")).sendKeys("TestingSite");
adriver.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

Step 1) Add the below capabilities on the Appium Automation script:

//Create the object of Desired Capability
capabilities =new DesiredCapabilities();
//Define the Device name
capabilities.setCapability(“deviceName”,”Redmi”);
//Define the platform version
capabilities.setCapability(“platformVersion”,”9 PKQ1.181203.001″);
//Define Platform name
capabilities.setCapability(“platformName”,”Android”);
//provide the chrome driver exe path saved in local system with same version as the browser version in mobile device
capabilities.setCapability(“chromedriverExecutable”,”C:\Users\Girvar Singh Negi\Desktop\Eclipse_Installer\GeckoDriver\chromedriver.exe”);
//Define Browser name
capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, “Chrome”);
//Define the string for chrome option
capabilities.setCapability(“appium:chromeOptions”,ImmutableMap.of(“w3c”,false));

Step 2) Create the object the android Driver passing host, port number along with capabilities as a parameter

adriver = new AndroidDriver(new URL(“http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub”), capabilities)

AndroidElement browsrIcon =adriver.findElement(MobileBy.AndroidUIAutomator(“new UiSelector().resourceId(\”com.snc.test.webview2:id/action_go_website\”)”));browsrIcon.click();

AndroidElement inputUrl=adriver.findElement(MobileBy.AndroidUIAutomator(“new UiSelector().resourceId(\”com.snc.test.webview2:id/input_url\”)”)); inputUrl.sendKeys(“facebook.com”);

Set<String> contextNames =adriver.getContextHandles();

Iterator itr=contextNames.iterator();
while(itr.hasNext()){ System.out.println(itr.next());
}

adriver.context((String) contextNames.toArray()[1]);

• adriver.findElement(By.id(“email”)).sendKeys(“code2test.com”); adriver.findElement(By.id(“pass”)).sendKeys(“TestingSite”);

adriver.close();