iOS/Android automation to interact with third party applications?

Question

I'm looking for various automation suites that can automate iOS / Android. I have an application that uses the third party Video/Audio/Photo/ from the native OS.

I was using Robotium with android before but I couldn't get it to take a photo/video/audio etc and research on google stated this wasn't possible.

I also attempted to use Calabash-iOs/ Calabash-Android but ran into the same problem when trying to take the video/photo/audio from an application outside the testing application.

Any recommendations for testing suite for iOS And/or Android?

Thanks!

Answer 1

uiautomator allows to automate features you need.

It can access system features and pre-installed apps.

The challenges include:

1) only one language for development – Java; 2) and it works only on Android 4.0 or later.

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PS Calabash and Robotium will not help to automate third party apps. I've used them both.

Answer 2

I would like to suggest you Appium, This tool gives you access to do the stuffs you are trying to do:

http://appium.io/