Chrome on Android com.android.chrome not installed on device

[Andrej1198]

Chrome on Android com.android.chrome not installed on device

[soulgalore]

On BitBar we use Chrome 111.0.5563.57 and Chromedriver 110.0.5481.77 (on Moto G5 and Samsung A51).

[soulgalore]

Sorry using "LiveTesting" in BitBar I think you should ask them for help :)

[soulgalore]

Thank you @Andrej1198 for the explanation!

[Andrej1198]

Also should mention that I cannot reproduce the issue locally, only on the using the bitbar service does the issue appear

[soulgalore]

Hi @Andrej1198 what Chrome/Chromedriver and Android version do you use? There was a bug in Chromedriver that Chrome could not start on Android 13 https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/110.0.5481.77/notes.txt (I had that problem locally), could it be that? I think when we run Chrome using Chromedriver we do not set the activity, that comes automatically in Chromedriver, so it could be that you need to update the version?

We also run tests on BitBar and Chrome works for me there (Chrome 111). However I have the almost the same problem as you but with Firefox on BitBar, it started to happen a week ago or something like that. I've been trying to fix the issue but haven't done that yet (works locally though so I cannot reproduce it) :|

[Andrej1198]

Thanks for the speedy response! :)
I am using Android 11 and for chrome I am using Chrome 109.0.5414.117 and Chromedriver 109.0.5414.25
What version of chrome and chromedriver are you using? I would like to try changing to that version and see if that resolves the issue for me

[Andrej1198]

Where do you get your apks out of curiosity?

[soulgalore]

BitBar installed Chrome and then we auto update our update through the Play store.

[Andrej1198]

Okay, good to know! Thanks

[Andrej1198]

How do you auto-update through the play store?
Is there an adb command to do so?

[soulgalore]

Using the GUI. BitBar has configured so Chrome isn't changed between new runs.

[Andrej1198]

What GUI are you referring to? Is there public documentation for this GUI?

[Andrej1198]

Will do thank you for everything!
I will leave this issue open and leave my solution to the issue when I'm done

[Andrej1198]

Hey @soulgalore I'm closing the issue

As it turns out the issue was due to a miscommunication, chrome on our android devices were disabled and we were not aware(we thought it was uninstalled). Chrome being disabled and chrome not being installed give the same error message from chromedriver which we were not aware of, hope this helps you with resolving your similar issue.

In our case chrome was being disabled with this command: pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.android.chrome
To re-enable the disabled app we ran the following command: cmd package install-existing com.android.chrome

A way you can check if your app is installed but not enabled is by running the enabling command(which should not fail if the app is already enabled) or by checking that the following command lists your packageadb shell dumpsys package com.android.chrome and checking that the package is also in /data/app we did find that when running pm list packages the package should not be listed if it is disabled

Hope this helps you resolve your issues!