iOS native Video player question

[Perze Ababa]

Is it possible for appium to interact with player controls of a native iOS video player? 

The scenario would be as follows,

launch HTML5 video URL via mobile safari (i.e. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GNZBSZD16cY ) 

click on "play" overlay

 * native video player loads

manupulate all player controls (play, pause, prev/next, time scrubber, etc)

[Jonathan Lipps]

I don't think so. The native player is a different app. What you could do is have one test load up the player by visiting the URL, then stop. Then another test loads up the youtube app; hopefully the video you picked is still loaded. Then you would be able to automate it in this second test.

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[Perze Ababa]

Thanks Jonathan. 

bummer!

[Eric Edem]

Hey Jonathan,

I just ran into this issue, and was wondering where this is at. We have a lot of javascript that happens after the video element starts playing, which seems to be blocked because the video element won't actually play. Do you have a recommendation for this? Mocking the element is not feasible because it won't detect issues like this that we have run into before: http://roblaplaca.com/blog/2010/04/14/ipad-and-iphone-html5-video-autoplay/

Thanks,

Eric

[Jonathan Lipps]

I think you might be out of luck then, if your javascript doesn't fire… Is there not a way to get the video to play in place without loading up another app?

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