Appium tests are not performed on my Android device

Question

I am learning automation testing with Appium(Lastest 1.8.2)-Mobile Automation Testing from Scratch course on Udemy . I am trying with real and virtual devices and I can launch the application, but my operation( .click ) is not working.

I am working on IntelliJ IDEA Community 2019.2.

Appium version: v1.14.1

I created Java Project with Maven Module JAR: commons-lang3-3.0, client-combined-3.141.59, java-client, selenium-java

My code:

BASE CLASS:

public class base {

    public static AndroidDriver Capabilities() throws MalformedURLException {

        File f = new File("src");

        File fs = new File(f, "ApiDemos-debug.apk");

        DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();

        cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, "Galaxy Tab S2");

        cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.AUTOMATION_NAME,"UiAutomator2");

        cap.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, fs.getAbsolutePath());

        AndroidDriver<AndroidElement> driver = new AndroidDriver<>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), cap);

        return driver;

    }

}

BASICS CLASS:

public class basics extends base {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {

        AndroidDriver<AndroidElement> driver = Capabilities();

        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        driver.findElement(By.xpath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='Preference']")).click();

        driver.findElementByXPath("//android.widget.TextView[@text='3. Preference dependencies']").click();

        driver.findElementById("android:id/checkbox").click();

    }

}

The problem is that I am receiving (probably) good exit code in Appium:

Got response with status 200

But I cannot see that test is performed on my device with Android.

Did I omit something?

Answer 1

You don't need that many dependencies, it is quite enough to have io.appium.java-client only, Appium Java Client includes Selenium libraries and guaranteed to work only with the version which it's linked with

So

1. First of all try to remove all the dependencies apart from the Appium Java Client.

2. Explicitly set up the following Desired Capabilities :

   • MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME with the value of android
   • AndroidMobileCapabilityType.APP_PACKAGE with the value of your application package

   • AndroidMobileCapabilityType.APP_ACTIVITY with the value of your application activity

   • MobileCapabilityType.AUTOMATION_NAME should be uiautomator2

You can check out Appium -> Code Examples -> Java for comprehensive information and sample code repository which you can use as the "skeleton" for your test