Selenium Web Driver on the Android

Question

I tried using WebView for extracting data from html.  My issue is that it is completely keeps force closing my apps.

My class:

package com.myapp.webscraper;

import com.myapp.webscraper.AppConfig;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.webkit.WebView;

import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

import android.webkit.WebChromeClient;

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;

import android.widget.EditText;

import org.openqa.selenium.*;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class Analytics extends AppCompatActivity{

    AppConfig cfg = new AppConfig();

    //WebView Analytics = null;

    EditText console = null;

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle l){

        super.onCreate(l);

        if(cfg.useDebug)

        {

            setContentView(R.layout.analytics_debug);

            String content = "Yellow";

            EditText output = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.debug_analytics_output);

            WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();

            //driver.get("http://google.co.uk");

           // WebElement body = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("body"));

           // String content = body.getText();

            output.setText(content);

        }

        else

        {

            setContentView(R.layout.analytics);

        }

        if(cfg.useDebug)

        {

            //console.setText(console.getText() + "\n[URL LOADED]: " + Analytics.getUrl() + "\n");

        }

        else

        {

        }

    }

}

Answer 1

The Selenium WebDriver is used for desktop web functional automation testing and in order to be used on the Android, you need to use Appium.

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