I am automating Mobile .app(ipa) file using Appium and Eclipse.
I have set the desired capabilities.
When I run the code, App initiates and closes instantly.
What could be the possible reason ? Please suggest.
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Appium has a way to inspect the view hierarchy of an app using an inspector. I am interested in building one myself.
I know the overview answer of: it uses some webdriver to accomplish this. But how?
It puzzles me that a separate iOS app can some how communicate to another app, and show even its screen.
How does it work under the hood? or how does the iOS app communicate to the UI inspector to send its screen shots and hierarchy?
It puzzles me that a separate iOS app can some how communicate to another app, and show even its screen.
Yes! Apps should not be able to do this. But there exists a special kind of app, built just for testing, which IS able to do this.
The way this is done is using Apple's XCUITest framework. When you write an XCUITest in XCode, it builds a special app which is able to start your test app and then communicate with it using the XCUITest methods. These methods allow you to inspect elements in the view.
In order to create a view tree, you start at the root view and iterate over the children, building out a tree with a tree traversal.
Normally, the XCUITest app exits when your test script finishes, which means you won't be able to access it from a desktop app for viewing the tree as it updates. If you write your test script to run an infinite loop and open a network port for communication with an outside process, now you can build your viewer. This is exactly what Appium does, so I suggest you check out the appium source code and maybe just use that?
More information in this blog post
[edit]: Oh yeah, Appium uses Feacebook's WebDriverAgent project as the script that runs on the app. So WebDriverAgent is basically an XCUITest script which runs a server and can take commands during a test. Appium does a ton of work to bundle and package it into the special kind of companion app that is able to access your app, installs it on the iOS device, and then runs the test. WebDriverAgent has a command which iterates over the UIHierarchy and returns the whole tree.
I am using Appium 1.8.1 to automate my Android application.
When there is any device alert appears Appium stops finding element after i click on ok button for that popup.
Currently i run the code to relaunch the application after any popup appears and it works after that but i need proper solution for this because relaunching the application is not the solution as per my understanding.
In Python:
driver.switch_to_window(driver.window_handles[0])
Am in the process of automating hybrid mobile app using Appium. There is a part in the app which loads frevo form, For which UI Automator viewer returns below error:
Error while obtaining UI hierarchy XML file: com.android.ddmlib.SyncException: Remote object doesn't exist!Error while obtaining UI hierarchy XML file: com.android.ddmlib.SyncException: Remote object doesn't exist!.
For all the other part of the app, UI Automator viewer returns as expected.
Can someone help in overcoming the above blocker?
Android Version 5.0.1(api 21)
Appium Version 1.4.0.0
Many Thanks in advance.
Try to stop your appium server, disconnect and connect your device again. This should work
I know you can tell the iOS Simulator to quit with applescript. Can you tell it to go "home" from the current app? And then click on the app's icon to relaunch it? This would be useful for me for Application Tests that need to verify background tasks complete and numerous other cases.
Any AppleScriptable app must export a scripting dictionary in order for AppleScript to know what its commands are. You can see any app's dictionary by opening the app in Script Editor.
Note that even if an app doesn't provide script commands for what you want, System UI Scripting or Automator can likely still be used to drive its UI. (For example, to choose the Home or Rotate commands in iOS Simulator's menu bar.)
There's also iOS-specific UI automation stuff you can do from the Instruments app that comes with Xcode.
The iOS Simulator does not directly support AppleScript. It doesn't have a scripting dictionary. This means that the only real way to manipulate it in AppleScript is to use the UI commands that work for any application.
I've completed a tracking system project in my blackberry 8520.
After I deploy my app to my mobile the application should start automatically and I should be able to switch to that application whenever I want.
When the application is in the background it should not terminate when I press the back button. Instead it should again go to background. It should close only when clicking the close option in the menu.
Are these possible? If yes please tell me how.
Go to your project Folder in eclipse.
Then open BlackBerry_App_Descriptor.xml
and then check the Auto-run on startup and save it.
This will run the application when you restart the phone.