UPDATE

Appium Android Driver issue is fixed in 1.6.x

Patched ChomeDriver binaries for macOS and Windows can be found here: https://github.com/blutter/appium-crosswalk-fix

How-to and patch for ChromeDriver can be found here: https://github.com/letsrokk/appium-android-xwalk-driver-patch/issues/2#issuecomment-402783818

appium-android-xwalk-driver-patch

Appium issue: https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/4597

Patched chromdriver binary provided by https://github.com/piotrekkmt/chromedriver-appium

Known issues

• With seems like with this patch it is possible to work only with NATIVE and base WEBVIEW contexts. I wasn't able yet to switch to second, third etc. opened webview within the app
• 'autoWebview' capability is not supported, you have to manualy switch app to webview after driver initialization

How-to

This patch allows Appium to find Crosswalk (Cordova) webviews on Android

Appium: 1.5.3 Platform: macOS Patch would work with any other OS as well but you'll need chromedriver binary for that OS Windows: https://github.com/ITKarel/ChromeDriver Linux: https://github.com/chOOnz/xwalk-chromedriver

The steps as follows:

Install Appium 1.5.3 via NPM

$ npm install -g appium

Patch appium-android-driver

$ cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-android-driver/
$ patch -p1 lib/webview-helpers.js /path/to/patch/file/webview_helpers_cordova_suppport.patch

Rebuild Appium Android Driver (run command in module root directory)

$ npm install

Copy patched ChromeDriver into module directory

$ cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-android-driver/node_modules/appium-chromedriver/chromedriver/mac/
$ cp -i /path/to/patched/file/chromedriver .
overwrite ./chromedriver? (y/n [n]) y

Start Appium as usual

$ appium
[Appium] Welcome to Appium v1.5.3 (REV 02ccb7dcfd188d33795d19a2846c937c93851ff8)
[Appium] Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723

Add capabilities as follows

Java:

String ANDROID_APP_PACKAGE = "com.example.app.package";
String ANDROID_DEVICE_SOCKET = ANDROID_APP_PACKAGE + "_devtools_remote";
capabilities.setCapability("androidDeviceSocket", ANDROID_DEVICE_SOCKET);
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
chromeOptions.setExperimentalOption("androidDeviceSocket", ANDROID_DEVICE_SOCKET);
capabilities.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, chromeOptions);

Ruby:

caps = {
    ...
    'androidDeviceSocket' => 'com.example.app.package_devtools_remote',
    'chromeOptions' => {
        'androidDeviceSocket' => 'com.example.app.package_devtools_remote'
    }
  }