Can this Autopilot be used for web application testing?

[snakade29]

Hi! I’m trying to understand whether the Autopilot library can be used for web application testing, specifically for automating browser UI where the UI itself is a Flutter web app.

So far, here’s what we’ve tried:

1. Spun up a Flutter desktop app and successfully invoked APIs such as:

   • GET /keys
   • GET /widgets
   • GET /tap

2. Spun up a Flutter Android app and were able to invoke the same APIs successfully via curl.

However, when we spun up a Flutter web app and attempted to call the same APIs, we received an HTML response for all requests.

Could you help us understand what we might be doing wrong, or whether this behavior indicates that Flutter web is not supported by Autopilot?

[ajinasokan]

Autopilot is not supported on web yet. Autopilot works by launching a small web server inside the app. Unfortunately it is not possible to do this inside a web app as there are no browser APIs.

I will keep this issue open. Let me see if I can figure out any workarounds in the future.