UC browser automation in appium

Pradeep_p 2016-05-10 06:58:06 UTC #1

I am trying to automate test cases in UCbrowser, but however stuck in switching between native and hybrid view. Same code for switching webview and hybrid view works fine. Is there anything i am missing that i should use for UC browser.

amitjaincoer191 2016-05-10 07:14:38 UTC #2

UCBrowser is your phone's native browser ?

Appium does not support all the browsers e.g. it supports safari,chrome,firefox
It does not support browser Opera etc

Can you share how ur launching appium using, r u launching it some like this
Browser.Type = "Browser" --> It will launch phone native browser

Pradeep_p 2016-05-10 08:10:55 UTC #3

Hi @amitjaincoer191 thanks for the reply. UCBrowser is not phones native browser. its is a playstore app.
I am using capabilities and launching the app.

pr4bh4sh 2016-05-14 06:26:28 UTC #5

Appium supports Safari, Chrome, Android native browser. As per opera software appium also works with opera browser, reference however I haven't tried it yet so can't say how good the support would be.

Appium does not support UC Browser, FireFox as of now.

amitjaincoer191 2016-05-19 07:22:29 UTC #6

Thanks @pr4bh4sh , I wrongly written firefox ... appium does not support firefox browser ..

Some time back I opened a bug for opera browser which was added for Feb'18 feature list...

luckycse 2017-04-17 18:42:54 UTC #7

Hi @Pradeep_p @pr4bh4sh
Can you please help me in setting up the UBrowser for automating tests. I meant can you please tell me how can I click the button ("Enter UC)" after installing the UCBrowser app.

Also can you also tell me about the views in UCBrowser. How can I check whether they have native view or web view.

amitjaincoer191 2017-04-18 13:52:17 UTC #8

I am not sure if appium added support for UCBrowser like it supports chrome,safari browsers etc, if it supports then u can launch it by passing capability in you desired capability object,basically if you pass this capability blank then it launches default browser of your mobile.

BrowserType.Browser=" "

Call driver.getContext() method which will returns a list of contexts like ‘NATIVE_APP’ or ‘WEBVIEW_1’ to know if app is hybrid or not.

WebView can be debugged in chrome remote debugger like we do for selenium
Native App can be debugged using appium inspector / uiautomatorviewer

luckycse 2017-05-03 17:04:37 UTC #9

Hi Amit,

Sorry for the delayed response.
I tried your suggestion and used uiautomator tool and command to see the UI hierarchy.
It worked fine. I just got into another issue where when I run adb adb shell uiautomator dump /data/local/tmp/test.xml it given very small view/UI hierarchy of the activity on android emulator but when I tried the same command hitting my real device it gave the full UI hierarchy dump.
Do you have any idea of this or any pointer to share.

amitjaincoer191 2017-05-10 12:40:17 UTC #10

Yes use real device. Android Emulators are very slow.

luckycse 2017-05-11 08:23:51 UTC #11

No I meant do we have any workaround to get the complete web view of UC browser for any page we searched.

mukulchuttani 2017-10-27 04:12:36 UTC #12

Did you manage to automate on UCbrowser? I am facing the same issue