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Get "Chrome version must be >= 53.0.2785.0" with Appium 1.6.2 and Android 6 Emulator

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The problem

I got this error whenever switching to webview context: *error occurred while processing the command. Original error - unknown error - Chrome version must be >= 53.0.2785.0 (Driver info - chromedriver=2.25.426935 (820a95b0b81d33e42712f9198c215f703412e1a1),platform=Mac OS X 10.12.1 x86_64) (Selenium - -WebDriver - -Error - -UnknownError)*

Environment

Appium version: 1.6.2
OS: Mac OS X 10.11.6 x86_64
Mobile platform: Android 6 (API23)
Genymotion Emulator
Appium CLI

Details

I have no problem when switching to webview context with Android 5.0, Android 5.1 Emulator and Android 6 Real device with same environment but facing this error with Android 6 Emulator. I tried many ways but no luck:

Reinstall chromedriver with all versions 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.6
Install latest chrome version on emulator
Install latest appium 1.6.2 (1.6.1 got same problem as well)

Link to Appium logs

https://gist.github.com/ltutitote/88bec54efe31a267b9766953c7155433

Issue Analytics

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:7

Top GitHub Comments

3reactions

ltutitotecommented, Dec 8, 2016

Thanks @mykola-mokhnach, I solved this problem by myself. For anyone who facing this issue, just download and install https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview on emulator and it will work perfectly

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ankitgithub03commented, Jan 18, 2017

Update WebView and chrome Browser on device from PlayStore, ur problem would be resolve