I would like to make a simple android app that can perform some automated behaviour on the web.
I want to be able to input username/password details and gave my app navigate to a website via a web view presumably and fill in my login credentials and navigate to a particular section of the website.
I realise selenium would be ideal for a task like this but was wondering if anyone had experience of trying something similar and whether it is all possible from inside the Android app rather than running on a standalone server testing the actual app as I realise is selenium/selenedroids main purpose.
Thanks
If your intention is to automate the actions for testing of your web from an Android app, try calabash-android, it's like Selenium for Android.
Calabash-android supports WebView manipulation, in your case entering text as well.
You can use the enter_text method to enter text in a webview (in addition to any other android widget).
enter_text("webView css:'input.login'", "run")This will enter the text "run" into the first input field of the class 'login'.
Source: https://github.com/calabash/calabash-android/wiki/06-webview-support