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Advanced tools
Appium UiAutomator2 Driver is a test automation framework for Android devices. Appium UiAutomator2 Driver automates native, hybrid and mobile web apps, tested on emulators and real devices. Appium UiAutomator2 Driver is part of the Appium mobile test automation tool.
Note: Issue tracking for this repo has been disabled. Please use the main Appium issue tracker instead.
npm install appium-uiautomator2-driver
Import Android Driver, set desired capabilities and create a session:
import { AndroidUiautomator2Driver } from `appium-uiautomator2-driver`
let defaultCaps = {
app: 'path/to/your.apk',
deviceName: 'Android',
platformName: 'Android',
automationName: 'uiautomator2'
};
let driver = new AndroidUiautomator2Driver();
await driver.createSession(defaultCaps);
The driver will attempt to connect to a device/emulator based on these properties in the desiredCapabilities object:
avd: Launch or connect to the emulator with the given name.udid: Connect to the device with the given UDID.platformVersion: Connect to the first device or active emulator whose OS begins with the desired OS. This means platformVersion: 5 will take the first 5x device from the output of adb devices if there are multiple available.If none of these capabilities are given, the driver will connect to the first device or active emulator returned from the output of adb devices.
If more than one of these capabilities are given, the driver will only use first the capability in the order above. That is, avd takes priority over udid, which takes priority over platformVersion.
To use a mirror of the UIAutomator 2 driver binaries use npm config property uiautomator2_driver_cdnurl.
Default is https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/releases/download.
npm install appium-uiautomator2-driver --uiautomator2_driver_cdnurl=https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/releases/download
Or add the property into your .npmrc file.
uiautomator2_driver_cdnurl=https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/releases/download
Another option is to use PATH variable UIAUTOMATOR2_DRIVER_CDNURL.
UIAUTOMATOR2_DRIVER_CDNURL=https://github.com/appium/appium-uiautomator2-server/releases/download npm install appium-uiautomator2-driver
lock behaves differently in Android than it does in iOS. In Android it does not take any arguments, and locks the screen and returns immediately.
npm run watch
To run E2E tests (/test/functional/) on TestObject, set the environment variable TESTOBJECT_E2E_TESTS to true
npm test
FAQs
UiAutomator2 integration for Appium
We found that appium-uiautomator2-driver-how-to-add-handler demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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