Hide url bar in android chrome with selenium-webdriver - android

I am using Browserstack's automate API with selenium-webdriver's node package to programatically take screenshots on different browsers and device
The desktop screenshots work fine - we screenshot, scroll, take another screenshot, until the end of the screen is reached. Then some code stitches the screenshots together.
On Android devices there is a problem, Browserstack takes screenshots that seem to include the space where the browser's bottom bar is, but it comes out as white space.
As per the Browserstack documentation, this is the method I am using to to the screenshot:
webdriver.WebDriver.prototype.saveScreenshot = (filename) => {
return driver.takeScreenshot().then((data) => {
fs.writeFile(
`${__dirname}/screenshots/${filename}`,
data.replace(/^data:image\/png;base64,/, ''),
'base64',
(err) => {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
},
);
});
};
I can successfully enter kiosk mode with desktop Chrome by adding a --kiosk argument to the chromeOptions object, but it doesn't have any effect in Chrome on a mobile device.
I have also tried executing the script document.documentElement.requestFullScreen through the driver, with no luck.
Is it possible to enter kiosk mode on android chrome programatically with selenium-webdriver?
Is there another way to reliably and programatically hide the url bar?

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Angular event.target.blur() not working for mobile

I have the following code to prevent the buttons to stay focused after they are clicked. It works perfectly for desktop but it doesn't work at all when testing on mobile devices (Both iOS & Android), I'm not sure if I'm missing something here (I already tried replacing click with touchstart and touchend).
this.renderer.listen('document', 'click', (event) => {
if (event.target.nodeName === 'BUTTON') {
event.target.blur();
} else if (event.target.parentNode.nodeName === 'BUTTON') {
event.target.parentNode.blur();
}
});
Ok so I figured it out, in case anyone ever comes across this situation:
It WAS actually working, but on mobile devices an "emulated" hover is also applied after pressing buttons, so what I was seeing was the hover state, not the focus one.
I fixed it by wrapping the hover style of my button inside this block, to make sure that the device supports ACTUAL hover (e.g. using a mouse):
#media (hover: hover) {
your-element:hover {
//hover style
}
}

R shiny mobile app: prevent PullToRefresh

Context: I am developing a mobile Shiny app using the shinyMobile package, which is a wrapper for the famous framework7 HTML template.
In my app, the user has to make a selection of attributes on a first tab using multiple dropdown lists, and then, on the other tabs, some output is produced. Each tab requires the user to scroll up and down to access all the content and in this process, very often the 'pull to refresh' feature is triggered.
This is really annoying, because the entire attribute selection and output are lost, and the user has to start over from scratch.
What I tried: based on this SO thread which pointed me to this Google developer page, I tried setting the CSS overscroll-behavior property to contain with: body {overscroll-behavior-y: contain;}. PROBLEM: It does not work for me! (tested on Chrome Android)
Minimal reproducible example:
default app, deployed here
library(shiny);library(shinyMobile)
shiny::shinyApp(
ui = f7Page(
f7Card(
h5('try to pull to refresh. normally it should work.')
)
),
server = function(input, output) {}
)
Supposedly fixed app, deployed here
library(shiny);library(shinyMobile)
shiny::shinyApp(
ui = f7Page(
tags$style(type='text/css', '.body{overscroll-behavior-y: contain;}'),
f7Card(
h5('try to pull to refresh. Normally it should not work.')
)
),
server = function(input, output) {}
)
Hope you guys can reproduce my issue and identify what is amiss!!!
You might want to change your css part to: html,body{overscroll-behavior-y: contain;}, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/42509310/3502164.
Then it works for me on my mobile (android chrome).
Reproducible example:
library(shiny)
library(shinyMobile)
app <- shiny::shinyApp(
ui = f7Page(
tags$style(type='text/css', 'html,body{overscroll-behavior-y: contain;}'),
f7Card(
h5('try to pull to refresh. Normally it should not work.')
)
),
server = function(input, output) {}
)
# use host config to access app from mobiles in the same network
shiny::runApp(appDir = app, host = '0.0.0.0')

locking screen orientation on mobile browser

I create a web page(chrome & safari) for mobiles (iphone & android), I want to lock the screen orientation in portrait mode.
Unlike mobile apps,there is no manifest file and activity as it a web page.
How to lock the orientation in mobiles using technologies (css/javascript/bootstrap/jquery) or any other?
I use a manifest file for my web app, which locks orientation for Chrome on my Android. For whatever reason, Safari gives their users the "right" to do this, but not the designers of the web app... Sort of feels like copyright infringement or something! ;) Don't get me started on Safari's disgraceful rewriting/rendering of input buttons!...
Anyways, back to the answer.
1) Include a link to your manifest within the head section of your page:
<link rel="manifest" href="http://yoursite.com/manifest.json">
2) Create your manifest file, "manifest.json"
{
"name":"A nice title for your web app",
"display":"standalone",
"orientation":"portrait"
}
3) Read more about manifests HERE
From my tests, assigning the screen.lockOrientation ( every browser versions ) to a var throw an illegal invocation error. Just use wind.screen.orientation.lock('landscape'); . It
EDIT: You can't use lock orientation on safari, cause it doesn't support fullscreen api at the moment http://caniuse.com/#feat=fullscreen . The lock orientation API NEED a fullscreen page to work. In Chrome, the window.screen.orientation.lock return a promise. So, AFTER you go fullscreen with the page, you can do something like this :
var lockFunction = window.screen.orientation.lock;
if (lockFunction.call(window.screen.orientation, 'landscape')) {
console.log('Orientation locked')
} else {
console.error('There was a problem in locking the orientation')
}
However, the lock orientation and fullscreen API are still experimental, not all browsers supports it.
The lockOrientation method locks the screen into the specified orientation.
lockedAllowed = window.screen.lockOrientation(orientation);
From the following code, you can check that orientation is locked or not.
var lockOrientation = screen.lockOrientation || screen.mozLockOrientation || screen.msLockOrientation;
if (lockOrientation("landscape-primary")) {
// orientation was locked
} else {
// orientation lock failed
}
see the following link, you will get idea from this.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen.lockOrientation
You can use:
screen.addEventListener("orientationchange", function () {
console.log("The orientation of the screen is: " + screen.orientation);
});
and
screen.lockOrientation('landscape');
Following: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Object_Model/Managing_screen_orientation

kendo UI mobile ListView hang after opening external link on native browser

In a Kendo UI Mobile ListView, a script to open an external link by native browser is called when a link is clicked.
The PhoneGap script is as follow:
On Android:
navigator.app.loadUrl(link, { openExternal:true } );
On iOS:
window.open(link, '_system');
The link can be opened on the corresponding native browser.
However, when the user switch back to the app from the native browser, some problems happen.
On Android, the screen hung on the original view, when the back button is pressed again, the screen is un-freezed and can be refreshed.
On iOS, however, the screen is also hung on the original view. When tapped on the screen, the complete view (with the layout) is moved. There is no way to un-freeze this screen.
How to fix this so that the screen can be un-frezzed after switching back from the native browser to the app?
Thank you very much for your help.
Updated 1:
I changed the original tag to a tag, everythings work now. But I am still curious to see if it is certain kind of bugs for Kendo UI Mobile.
There is a serious problem with Kendo Mobile hanging the page completely, making the app totally unresponsive to touch/mouse. The offending CSS is in Loader.transition() which does this.container.css("pointer-events", "none") which is equivalent to:
document.body.style.pointerEvents = "none";
Ouch - that is ugly. Plus in _attachCapture there is offensive JavaScript for all mouse and touch events that does:
event.preventDefault();
Fatal if using an app with an embedded full page WebView/UIWebView (requiring app to be closed and restarted).
Hangs can happen if:
You have an exception in your code (even in unobvious places),
You mistype a transition (no exception, just hangs),
A user's browser doesn't fire the transitionEnd event properly for some reason (This was repeatable for one user's up-to-date Chrome browser.
There is a failure mode in the Interaction between page transitions and Loader (depending on timing, couldn't repeat),
Multiple other causes
Note that there is a comment in Kendo that says: "This should be cleaned up at some point (widget by widget), and refactored to widgets not relying on the complete callback if no transition occurs.", so clearly Telerik know there is a problem.
You can use the following code during development to at least warn when Kendo Mobile has crapped itself:
var transitionTimer;
kendo.mobile.ui.Loader.prototype.wasTransition = kendo.mobile.ui.Loader.prototype.transition;
kendo.mobile.ui.Loader.prototype.transition = function() {
transitionTimer = setTimeout(function() {
alert('Kendo has hung the page');
}, 10000);
this.wasTransition.apply(this, arguments);
}
kendo.mobile.ui.Loader.prototype.wasTransitionDone = kendo.mobile.ui.Loader.prototype.transitionDone;
kendo.mobile.ui.Loader.prototype.transitionDone = function() {
clearTimeout(transitionTimer);
this.wasTransitionDone.apply(this, arguments);
}

Bug in Android web browser: address bar hides content

So, I've drunk the web-app kool-aid, and I'm switching from building Android native apps to building web apps.
But I'm having really bad problems on Android browsers with the address bar (update: specifically, my HTC Desire Z running Android 2.3.3, I'm not sure how many other versions it affects):
Problem 1: While the page is loading, the address bar hides
the top ~30px of content. (Why on earth does it do this?!)
Problem 2:
In some situations, the address bar won't go away - this occurs for
me in portrait when the connection speed is slow.
So on some occasions, the address bar hides the top 30px of content permanently. This is seriously broken.
I borrowed some code from another StackOverflow question to try to fix this:
if (navigator.userAgent.match(/Android/i)) {
window.scrollTo(0,0); // reset in case prev not scrolled
var nPageH = $(document).height();
var nViewH = window.outerHeight;
if (nViewH > nPageH) {
nViewH = nViewH / window.devicePixelRatio;
$('BODY').css('height',nViewH + 'px');
}
window.scrollTo(0,1);
}
But it doesn't seem to work reliably - not to mention that it's a horrible solution. What can I do?
What's your phone and your phones android version? Im having a galaxy s2 - the address bar is not implemented as an overlay there, the real content is below, not behind the address bar. If you scroll down the addressbar will go up and it's not visible anymore. Anyway, that is NOT a bug, it's a feature! The user could not go away if he entered your site once, if you would do that. If you don't want this 'annoying' addressbar, create a 'normal' android app with an WebView and load your desired site within there.
Here's the NON-jQuery solution that instantly removes the address bar without scrolling. Also, it works when you rotate the browser's orientation.
function hideAddressBar(){
if(document.documentElement.scrollHeight<window.outerHeight/window.devicePixelRatio)
document.documentElement.style.height=(window.outerHeight/window.devicePixelRatio)+'px';
setTimeout(window.scrollTo(1,1),0);
}
window.addEventListener("load",function(){hideAddressBar();});
window.addEventListener("orientationchange",hideAddressBar());
It should work with the iPhone also, but I couldn't test this.

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