Accessing views outside of my App package

[pradeipp]

Description

I know detox is a gray box testing tool and that it only takes control of the app in test. But is there a workaround of some sort if you need to access any apps outside of the test app?
Use cases:

1. if I wanna upload a pic to my app, I get the android photo browser(com.android.documentsui package).
2. if my app opens a webview in chrome to perform google login

I thought of running appium together with detox but figured that it'd be too complex and probably won't work either

Your environment

Detox version: 20.5.0
React Native version: 0.71.3
Node version: 16
Device model: android 31 aosp
OS: android
Test-runner (select one): jest

[noomorph]

As for web views: https://wix.github.io/Detox/docs/api/webviews/#locating-web-view-elements (supported on Android only, iOS support is planned and in works)

As for uploading, I am not entirely sure. @d4vidi can you advise?

[pradeipp]

are web views outside of the app package supported too? I tried on a web view hosted by the org.chromium.webview_shell package but it didn't work. I also have another webview inside the app package itself which I can access normally though.

[d4vidi]

are web views outside of the app package supported too? I tried on a web view hosted by the org.chromium.webview_shell package but it didn't work. I also have another webview inside the app package itself which I can access normally though.

No, it will not work in an external activity. You can resort to using the ui Device API (it's in the docs, I'd share a link but I'm afk)

[pradeipp]

@d4vidi that's great news. I looked at the implementation but didn't see a way to grab elements by locators. Do we have any plans to add that down the road?

Meanwhile, for external apps outside of our test apps I guess we have to perform click and key press actions by coordinates, with no way to use assertions.?

[pradeipp]

@d4vidi pinging you in case you missed my questions..

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