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Question

I am using Python and Android Chrome. And my WebDriver is created using WebDriver.Remote(host, caps)

I actually want to use Chrome in incognito mode but it seems not possible according to the question here.

But are there any workaround? For example, can I submit my url to the url bar of Chrome at the top? I have tried driver.find_element_by_id('com.android.chrome:id/url_bar').submit() but it says not implemented.

Answer 1

This is my workaround. Explanations are in the comments.

# Open Menu/More Button
d.find_element_by_id('com.android.chrome:id/menu_button').click()

# Click On Incognito Mode
d.find_element_by_xpath('/hierarchy/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.widget.LinearLayout/android.widget.ListView/android.widget.LinearLayout[3]').click()

# Find Url Bar on the top
url_bar = d.find_element_by_id('com.android.chrome:id/url_bar')

# Click on it which gives you another view.
url_bar.click()

# Set url and this gives you a list of options
url_bar.set_text('https://a.lianwifi.com/app_h5/jisu/wifiapk/sms.html?c=uvtest&type=1')

# Click the first one. This is the one that leads you to the page with your url.
d.find_element_by_xpath('/hierarchy/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.widget.LinearLayout/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.view.ViewGroup/android.widget.FrameLayout[2]/android.widget.ListView/android.view.ViewGroup[1]/android.view.ViewGroup').click()

Answer 2

You're trying to mix 2 incompatible approaches to mobile automation using Appium.

1. If you want to use Selenium API normally in order to control mobile browser like a desktop browser:

   • Instantiate your AppiumDriver like:

     desired_caps = {}
     desired_caps['platformName'] = 'Android'
     desired_caps['browserName'] = 'chrome'
     driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_caps)
     

     then to open the URL just use driver.get() function like:

     driver.get('http://example.com')
     

2. If you want to use Appium API and treat Chrome as any other mobile application you need to provide a little bit different set of desired capabilities and specify Chrome package and activity

   desired_caps = {}
   desired_caps['platformName'] = 'Android'
   desired_caps['appPackage'] = 'com.android.chrome'
   desired_caps['appActivity'] = 'com.google.android.apps.chrome.Main'
   driver = webdriver.Remote('http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', desired_caps)
   

Check out Appium - > Code Examples -> Python article for more information on automating mobile browsers/applications including code snippets