E2E testing Ionic App with Crosswalk, Appium & Protractor Not working

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Hi,
Lately our Ionic app grew to a phase where we would like to add end to end automation tests. Problem arises when we try to use appium and our app is built upon crosswalk.
A quick search around finds that one requires to have the crosswalk-webdriver in order for the tests to work with crosswalk, but it is basically non existent/non compatible for windows/mac.
Given this is the situation I was wondering does anyone know how to solve this issue or perhaps a different e2e automating testing framework that does work with crosswalk thus enabling us to test our Ionic app.
Perhaps there is a workaround to release the app to android platform once with crosswalk and once without in parallel?

Thanks

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Anyone with anything about this? could it be that Ionic ‘pushed’ crosswalk as a solution back in the day but it cannot be used with e2e testing?

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Workaround found for now, can finally start developing e2e tests with appium, crosswalk, protractor ionic.

Thanks to piotrekkmt post on appiums github (https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/4597), he added a web driver supporting crosswalk with a short explanation for mac. If you got a mac, this could solve the inability to perform protractor tests with appium when working with crosswalk:

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I am just about to start trying my protractor tests with Appium. Is https://github.com/piotrekkmt/chromedriver-appium working well with you on iOS and Android ?

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I left e2e testing for now, but from the discussion there it seems like it stopped working for newer crosswalk versions