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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by zuzululu on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:21AM (#47983840)
This is neat! Tried the finder example and was impressed how quick it was.

I would love it if it can support ios simulator, iphone? I am using Maestro but it is so damn slow and seems to be token hungry.

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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by handfuloflight on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:50AM (#47983973)
https://github.com/callstackincubator/agent-device
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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by zuzululu on Saturday May 02, 2026 @03:37PM (#47989699)
seems like this is for React Native, flutter won't expose the trees, bummer.

Guess I'm stuck with Maestro

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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by thymikee on Friday May 15, 2026 @07:53AM (#48147474)
this will work with Flutter. agents will use screenshots instead of a11y snapshots instead. It will be just less efficient and a bit more token hungry
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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by someone654 on Saturday May 02, 2026 @02:43AM (#47983951)
Looks very interesting. Especially like that language environment is abstracted away, through cli, such that one are not stuck with for example python to write your UI logic (or create your own cli wrapper around PyAutoGUI).

How can one help with implementing Linux and Windows support?

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Re:I built the Playwright for desktop apps. 80% token savings by lahfir on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @03:46AM (#48019283)
Hi, Mac is generally available. Windows and Linux are in the roadmap!
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