Testing Hybrid Applications on Android

Hybrid applications (apps) are apps that are run on the device, like native applications, but are written with web technologies, for example HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.

Silk Test Classic supports testing hybrid apps that consist of a single web view which is embedded in a native container. A common example of such a hybrid app would be an Apache Cordova application.

Silk Test Classic can detect web views that support Chrome remote debugging. Silk Test Classic can detect web views with either the package com.android.webviewor the package com.google.android.webview, which are the default packages on most Android devices.
Note: Silk Test Classic supports testing hybrid apps on Android 4.4 or later. To test hybrid apps on Android 6.0 or later, Android System WebView version 51 or later is required.

The process for testing a hybrid app on Android is the same as the process for testing a mobile native application. For additional information, see Testing Mobile Applications on Android.