Screenshot is not taken on a real device when webview is used

[ania-s]

I tried to take a screenshot on a real device while in webview and it looks that it doesn't work. In native context everything works fine. The log is below:

"appium": "1.11.0-beta.2"

�[35m[HTTP]�[39m �[90m�[39m
�[35m[HTTP]�[39m �[37m-->�[39m �[37mGET�[39m �[37m/wd/hub/session/7d87626b-9c2d-48d3-be53-9fc4697d233a/screenshot�[39m
�[35m[HTTP]�[39m �[90m{}�[39m
�[35m[MJSONWP]�[39m Driver proxy active, passing request on via HTTP proxy
[debug] �[35m[JSONWP Proxy]�[39m Matched '/wd/hub/session/7d87626b-9c2d-48d3-be53-9fc4697d233a/screenshot' to command name 'getScreenshot'
[debug] �[35m[JSONWP Proxy]�[39m Proxying [GET /wd/hub/session/7d87626b-9c2d-48d3-be53-9fc4697d233a/screenshot] to [GET http://127.0.0.1:8006/wd/hub/session/9d4b189c82b882b9e0c1ad5ecf56785e/screenshot] with body: {}
�[35m[HTTP]�[39m �[37m-->�[39m �[37mDELETE�[39m �[37m/wd/hub/session/7d87626b-9c2d-48d3-be53-9fc4697d233a�[39m
�[35m[HTTP]�[39m �[90m{}�[39m
[debug] �[35m[MJSONWP]�[39m Calling AppiumDriver.deleteSession() with args: ["7d87626b-9c2d-48d3-be53-9fc4697d233a"]
[debug] �[35m[BaseDriver]�[39m Event 'quitSessionRequested' logged at 1545036327431 (09:45:27 GMT+0100 (Central European Standard Time))
�[35m[Appium]�[39m Removing session 7d87626b-9c2d-48d3-be53-9fc4697d233a from our master session list
[debug] �[35m[Espresso]�[39m Deleting espresso session
[debug] �[35m[Espresso]�[39m Deleting Espresso server session

[mykola-mokhnach]

Do you observe any errors in the logcat output? is FLAG_SECURE set for the view, which is shown on the screen (e. g. is it possible to take a screenshot manually?)

[ania-s]

Do you observe any errors in the logcat output? is FLAG_SECURE set for the view, which is shown on the screen (e. g. is it possible to take a screenshot manually?)

Sorry, I somehow missed your question. I do not see any errors and I don't think a flag is set or at least I cannot find it in the source code of the app. What do you mean by taking screenshot manually - directly through the phone/tablet?

[mykola-mokhnach]

What do you mean by taking screenshot manually - directly through the phone/tablet?

Yes, using the special shortcut (for different devices it is different)

[ania-s]

What do you mean by taking screenshot manually - directly through the phone/tablet?

Yes, using the special shortcut (for different devices it is different)

I checked it and I can take a screenshot manually using button shortcuts.

[KazuCocoa]

What about applying #366 if you can build the PR manually?
@ania-s

On my environment, I could not get screenshot without nativeWebScreenshot on both uiautomato2 and espresso driver in webview context. I wonder your case is also similar.

[dpgraham]

@KazuCocoa did your PR resolve this?

[KazuCocoa]

Not sure. But it should resolve this if the main reason is "webview"

Do you have a time to try out? @ania-s

[ania-s]

Sorry for the delay but I was sick. I wanted to check it with the latest appium release, however, I cannot get the tests on android running with it as I get the following error:

ERROR: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: this.adb.getApplicationInstallState is not a function

Maybe I am missing sth but meanwhile if anyone knows what could be wrong I would appreciate any hint. Thanks

[KazuCocoa]

Are you fine now?
Try:

1. npm uninstall -g appium
2. npm install -g appium@beta

I assume your environment had old modules. You should up to date them.

[ania-s]

Are you fine now?
I am better, thanks :)
Try:

1. npm uninstall -g appium
2. npm install -g appium@beta

I assume your environment had old modules. You should up to date them.

I tried cleaning everything but I keep on getting this error.

[KazuCocoa]

What the result of $ npm list -g appium-espresso-driver appium-adb?

The command prints dependency versions

[ania-s]

What the result of $ npm list -g appium-espresso-driver appium-adb?

The command prints dependency versions

npm list -g appium-espresso-driver appium-adb
/usr/local/lib
└─┬ appium@1.11.0-beta.3
├─┬ appium-android-driver@4.8.0
│ └── appium-adb@7.2.0
├─┬ appium-espresso-driver@1.7.1
│ └── appium-adb@7.2.0 deduped
├─┬ appium-selendroid-driver@1.13.3
│ └── appium-adb@7.2.0 deduped
└─┬ appium-uiautomator2-driver@1.28.0
└── appium-adb@7.2.0 deduped

[KazuCocoa]

thanks. I assumed you had older appium-adb which had no getApplicationInstallState

Below was mine which worked.

├─┬ appium@1.11.0-beta.3
│ ├─┬ appium-android-driver@4.8.0
│ │ └── appium-adb@7.2.0
│ ├─┬ appium-espresso-driver@1.7.1
│ │ └── appium-adb@7.2.0  deduped
│ ├─┬ appium-selendroid-driver@1.13.3
│ │ └── appium-adb@7.2.0  deduped
│ └─┬ appium-uiautomator2-driver@1.28.0
│   └── appium-adb@7.2.0  deduped

What about below flow? It can force the espresso driver build with the repository's one.

$ cd /usr/local/lib/node_modules/
$ rm -rf appium-espresso-driver
$ git clone git@github.com:appium/appium-espresso-driver.git
$ cd appium-espresso-driver
$ npm install # then, you can use the lates dependencies in the driver

[ania-s]

@KazuCocoa unfortunately it doesn't make any difference. I cleaned my environment one more time as well as tried on a different machine and I cannot get it working. Not it even doesn't install the apps on the device (the testing app & appium), instead it throws the errors, like:

Exception occurred while executing:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown package: io.appium.settings
at com.android.server.pm.Settings.getInstallerPackageNameLPr(Settings.java:5053)
at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.getInstallerPackageName(PackageManagerService.java:27935)
at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.isOrphaned(PackageManagerService.java:27941)
at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.deletePackageVersioned(PackageManagerService.java:24068)
at com.android.server.pm.PackageInstallerService.uninstall(PackageInstallerService.java:996)
at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.runUninstall(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:912)
at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerShellCommand.onCommand(PackageManagerShellCommand.java:134)
at android.os.ShellCommand.exec(ShellCommand.java:96)
at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.onShellCommand(PackageManagerService.java:28745)
at android.os.Binder.shellCommand(Binder.java:581)
at android.os.Binder.onTransact(Binder.java:481)
at android.content.pm.IPackageManager$Stub.onTransact(IPackageManager.java:3209)
at com.android.server.pm.PackageManagerService.onTransact(PackageManagerService.java:5103)
at android.os.Binder.execTransact(Binder.java:682)

[KazuCocoa]

The setting app is probably below in your path.

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/io.appium.settings/apks/settings_apk-debug.apk

Can you install it by manual via adb install command?

[ania-s]

Please ignore my previous comment - this error was my fault. I fixed it. Now I only get
ERROR: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:4723

I will investigate it a little bit more as appium is not started at all.

[ania-s]

I managed to get the most recent version of appium working, however, I still cannot take screenshots on android device. Still the same behavior as previously.

[KazuCocoa]

With nativeWebScreenshot capability?

Can you share the appium log?
If you can, could you share your logcat as well?

[ania-s]

With nativeWebScreenshot capability?

Can you share the appium log?
If you can, could you share your logcat as well?

I didn't use the capability. Now when I added it, it works fine. Thanks for the fix.

[KazuCocoa]

Thanks for the report :)