How to automate web app in Android using Appium | chrome browser automation in mobile

How to automate web app in Android using Appium | chrome browser automation in mobile

In this post, I’m going automate how to Load chrome browser on Android mobile using Appium. I’m going to take an example of the Google search on chrome browser and search my blog and navigate to my blog:

Perform the following steps to automate the wep app:

1. First create maven project:

If you are new to Maven, Follow this post “How to create Maven project for automation”

2. Add the following Appium & TestNg Maven dependency in pom.xml file:

TestNg Dependency:

                        <dependency>

                                    <groupId>org.testng</groupId>

                                    <artifactId>testng</artifactId>

                                    <version>6.9.13.6</version>

                        </dependency>

Appium dependency:

                        <dependency>

                                    <groupId>io.appium</groupId>

                                    <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>

                                    <version>7.0.0</version>

                        </dependency>

3. Update the desired capabilities in the setup() method to launch the calculator app:

    DesiredCapabilities cap=new DesiredCapabilities();

    cap.setCapability("deviceName", "emulator-5554");

    cap.setCapability("udid", "emulator-5554");

    cap.setCapability("browserName", "Chrome");

    cap.setCapability("platformName", "Android");

    cap.setCapability("platformVersion", "9.0");

4. Install chromedriver using npm command in Appium path or set simply globally:

Command: npm install -g chromedriver

5. Now, we need to find the elements; we are going to find them by xpath:

for google search box:

WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']"));

for search button:

WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='Tg7LZd']"));

for blog link:

WebElement blogLink=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(text(),'Automation Testing - Selenium, Appium & Java')]"));

6. Now, we need to perform send text & click on the element:

searchBox.sendKeys("mahantesh-hadimani blog");

searchButton.click();

blogLink.click();

7. Complete code should look like the following block of code:

package practise;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;

public class WebAppExample {

AppiumDriver<MobileElement> driver;
           
            @BeforeClass
            public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException
            {
                        DesiredCapabilities cap=new DesiredCapabilities();
                cap.setCapability("deviceName", "emulator-5554");
                cap.setCapability("udid", "emulator-5554");
                cap.setCapability("browserName", "Chrome");
                cap.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
                cap.setCapability("platformVersion", "9.0");
                driver=new AppiumDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://0.0.0.0:4723/wd/hub"), cap);
                driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(15, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
                driver.get("https://www.google.com/");
            }
           
            @Test
            public void testExample(){
                       
                        WebElement searchBox = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']"));
                        searchBox.sendKeys("mahantesh-hadimani blog");
                       
                        WebElement searchButton = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class='Tg7LZd']"));
                        searchButton.click();
                       
                        WebElement blogLink = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[contains(text(),'Automation Testing - Selenium, Appium & Java')]"));
                        blogLink.click();
                                   
            }

            @AfterClass
            public void tearDown(){
                        driver.quit();
            }
}

Note:

You can automate on default android browser also by changing to "Browser" from "Chrome" in the "browserName" desired capability.

Any issues?

Some times , your script will fail due to mismatch in the chrome browser version and chromedriver version. Makes sure your installed chromedriver supports the mobile chrome browser.