Inspecting Webview App Element using Chrome Extension
Inspecting the WebView element using the Chrome browser is the easiest and most efficient way. So in this blog, I am going to explain how to inspect the WebView element using the chrome browser. Let’s first understand what WebView is and why to use it.
What Is A WebView?
It is widely used to display web pages in an application. The web pages and web apps can reuse in an Android application. The content used to display inside a WebView is responsive and mobile-friendly and because of this, it works better towards providing a better user experience.
Now let’s see how to inspect elements on Android WebView
1) The first step is you need to connect your mobile device to your system.
2) The second step is you need to go to your chrome browser and go to chrome://chrome-urls/ then you will see the result like the below screenshot:
3) You need to select “chrome://inspect/” from that list.
4) Click on it and it will open a window like this. There is an option to discover USB devices in it. It will display information about the devices that are currently attached to the system.
5) Now launch the app on your mobile device, and for inspecting the element just click on inspect.
This will open a new chrome window containing all the UI details of that screen.
Now you can inspect the elements for the webview app like you inspect for the website. By following these steps you will get a better understanding of how you can inspect a webview using a chrome browser and how you can locate your desired elements.
Below is the link for your reference to inspect webViews and get locators.
Conclusion:
According to my experience, this is the most effective and easier way to inspect WebView elements using the chrome browser.
Manisha is a Lead SDET at SpurQLabs with overall experience of 3.5 years in UI Test Automation, Mobile test Automation, Manual testing, database testing, API testing and CI/CD. Proven expertise in creating and maintaining test automation frameworks for Mobile, Web and Rest API in Java, C#, Python and JavaScript.