Can't get UiAutomator to work - classes do not appear, UiAutomator2 driver absent

Question

I am using Idea and Android Studio, writing my test with Appium, need to add UIautomator to my project, I added dependency statement to build.gradle file. compile group: 'androidx.test.uiautomator', name: 'uiautomator', version: '2.2.0-alpha4'

But I can't see any UI automator classes

Also I added following capability capabilities.setCapability("automationName", "UiAutomator2");

How can I use it? UiDevice search founds nothing

Answer 1

set skipServerInstall = False in DesiredCapabilities and you will get the latest UiAutomator2 from the appium. Once the test ran successfully for one time, you can set that to True again

Answer 2

根据文档，设置为使 appium 安装最新的 uiautomator2 服务器的正确功能是skipServerInstallation ，因此将其值设置为false 。