Android UDF

[oHenry]

Great start!

How about create a new GitHub project for this UDF?

Regards
Henry.

[junkew]

I had to read a little more the other day about mobile testautomation and tooling around.
So hereby some additional nice references for those people having enough time ;-)

• The ability for you to build and deploy accessibility services was introduced with Android 1.6 (API Level 4) and significant improvements with Android 4.0 (API Level 14)
  https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/accessibility/services.html
  So you could build an app on android that has accessibility to apps running and if in that app you make a tcp-ip server you could build a native driver to talk to from a PC on same network (without ADB you will not be able to send input events as far as i can see)
  http://letsrockengineers.com/portfolio/create-tcp-server-in-just-4-steps-android-tutorial/
• Source to learn from
  https://github.com/google/talkback
• Sending taps from within Java (with some security restrictions as this will not be fully equal to using ADB remotely)

   Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("input tap 807 730");

  https://androidcookbook.com/Recipe.seam?recipeId=2457
  https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Runtime.html
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[oHenry]

3 hours ago, junkew said:

I had to read a little more the other day about mobile testautomation and tooling around.
So hereby some additional nice references for those people having enough time ;-)

• The ability for you to build and deploy accessibility services was introduced with Android 1.6 (API Level 4) and significant improvements with Android 4.0 (API Level 14)
  https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/accessibility/services.html
  So you could build an app on android that has accessibility to apps running and if in that app you make a tcp-ip server you could build a native driver to talk to from a PC on same network (without ADB you will not be able to send input events as far as i can see)
  http://letsrockengineers.com/portfolio/create-tcp-server-in-just-4-steps-android-tutorial/
• Source to learn from
  https://github.com/google/talkback
• Sending taps from within Java (with some security restrictions as this will not be fully equal to using ADB remotely)

  
   Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("input tap 807 730");

  https://androidcookbook.com/Recipe.seam?recipeId=2457
  https://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Runtime.html
•  

Hi @junkew,

Please check this post. I made a simple ImperiusGeorge client in order to use AutoIt as scripting language for mobile automation (only for Android). 

Comments are welcome.

 

Edited December 21, 2016 by oHenry

[junkew]

I assume the world will go to a webdriver.getNativeDriver() concept
unclear what status is of this proposal

https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/mobile-spec/blob/master/spec-draft.md

selendroid solution

http://selendroid.io/native.html

appium solution

https://github.com/appium/appium-android-bootstrap

Most solutions I can find are based on ADB/UIAutomator and not on accessibility. Combined with accessibility at least on Android you can do much more (even on lower SDK API level)

So far not seen solutions that can type/sendkeys fast without root access all seem to be based on adb shell input text|keyevnt logic