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Mobile Native Testing

In addition to website testing, Sauce Visual also supports testing of native mobile apps for Android and iOS with Appium.

In principle, the process is the same as writing a visual test for a website, except that instead of a website, a mobile native app needs to be specified in the capabilities.

Check our examples to see visual for mobile native in action.

Best Practices​

When writing a visual test for mobile apps, we recommend the following:

  • Explicitly control "dark mode" / "light mode" before taking visual snapshots, so snapshots are either always taken in dark or light mode, but not mixed.
  • Explicitly specify a single device and OS version for testing. You may run the same test suite on various devices, but don't use wildcards in device names (dynamic device allocation).

Limitations​

The following features are not yet available for mobile app testing: