Class AndroidDriver (implements AppiumDriver interface) has certain methods for locking and unlocking an android device / emulator at run time. (should upgrade java-client.jar to version 4) Methods: isLocked() – Check if device is locked Returns true, if device is locked, else returns false Unlock a device Lock a device NOTE: these methods doesn’t hold good if…
We have seen how to run appium tests on android native apps In this post, we will be learning how to run appium tests on android handset browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Dolphin or android browser.. application examples on browsers are like facebook.com, gmail.com etc… for native apps (.apk files), we use uiautomatorviewer.bat to identify elements on…
In our one of previous post selenium on textbox, we have seen how to type or send text into textboxes using selenium and java There are situations where direct sendkeys doesn’t work, so we need to focus on that text box and then sendKeys to type text, this can be achieved by using JavaScriptExecutor Actions…
If you are new to appium, please refer below links for the prerequisites Eclipse IDE setup Appium setup for windows [Mandatory to have the setup before proceeding] How to find appium locators App Package and activity name For the appium test: we will be using Selenium, Appium, Eclipse IDE (java) and Android app (.apk) in an…
There are situations where we need to automate tasks such as Click on Browse (file explorer pops up) Select required file from explorer window click on open or upload. “File explorer dialog” and click on “Open” is not browser objects, these are basically windows objects and can not be located using selenium locators. We have several…
For download and installation of eclipse, please eclipse setup For the 1st time, while opening the eclipse.exe, you may get an error as shown above screenshot, “No Java virtual machine was found after searching the following locations: c:/program files/java/jdk1.8.0_05/bin/javaaw.exe” In you error dialog the version of JDK shown may be different. What is the cause:…
Genymotion is an android emulator where we can install mobile apps under test and run our appium automation tests. Sometimes it’s difficult to keep connected our mobile handsets while running automated tests, so to avoid we can use emulator. In this article, we will be seeing the setup of Genymotion emulator. Navigate to https://www.genymotion.com Create…
Mobile device has many applications, so we should let appium know on which application automated tests should run. For this appium provides capabilities as appPackage & appActivity to identify the android application, and bundleID to identify the iOS application. Most of the applications we do automation are from with in the organisation, so one best…
Link to download different combination of OS and type of VMs : https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/windows/