Not able to access login fields in "android.webkit.WebView"

[Amit Dewan]

In my application I am stuck on "android.webkit.WebView"
Actually I have login and password field inside "android.webkit.WebView"  and I am not able to automate these fields through Appium.
UIAutomator Viewer also shows the class of full frame as "android.webkit.WebView" and is not recognizing fields within it.
Please tell if you have any solution.
Thanks

[bootstrap online]

Use API 19. Reactivate the webview until the login fields show up as
textfields. This assumes you're using uiautomator. For selendroid, it
should just work although the API is different.

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[Amit Dewan]

I am currently testing with API 17 or API 18.

Do you mean to say elements will be detected with API 19??

Can you give me some example?

Thanks

[bootstrap online]

Yes, only API 19. The standard element finding methods work.

[Jim Ketty]

Hi bootstrap,

I'm also facing a similar issue where I'm blocked to access the 'android.webkit.WebView' element on the Login page of android native app. Based on your above update, I'm using Nexus7 running on Android ver[4.4.2] i.e. API 19.

The login page of the android native app is a webview having two fields username and password, both belonging to the class (android.widget.EditText). The id for these elements are not displayed, therefore I fail to access them directly by standard element finding methods. I have tried using the driver.switchTo().window("WEBVIEW").

Only information on these fields that I get from the UI Automator Viewer is the 'content - description' for each of these fields. I have also tried to find element using the content-description(findElement(By.name("content-description text"))), but it does not work. I'm currently blocked to automate these fields by sending in test data using Appium.

Please help me out with a possible solution to this issue?

Thanks,

Jim

[bootstrap online]

On API 19 I'm able to login to webviews such as Facebook and dropbox.
Sometimes I have to reload the webview if the elements aren't found.
In Ruby, the typing code is like this:

textfield(0).type 'em...@example.com' # type into the first textfield