In this post I will show how to test toast messages in Android using bare UI Automator.
If you are using Appium then you can skip this post, because with Appium a toast should be easily found using xpath “/hierarchy/android.widget.Toast”.
Continue readingIn my last post I promised to write about log viewing tools, but since then I encountered a new issue with Chrome crashing when opening non-ASCII URL on Android, and I wanted to let you know about it ASAP.
Continue readingRecently I’ve ended up spending quite some time trying to figure out why a test where I was trying to set permissions via adb and appops command on Android intermittently fails (the dreaded flaky test!). So in today’s post I want to share my findings with you.
Continue readingIn this post I will describe how to use RunListener in Android instrumented tests (i.e. UI Automator or Espresso). But before getting into the nitty-gritty details, let’s discuss if you need to use it at all.
Continue readingToday I would like to share with you brief reviews of two test automation books I’ve recently read — “Software Testing Automation Tips: 50 Things Automation Engineers Should Know” and “Mastering Mobile Test Automation” (affiliate links).
Continue readingThis is a list of adb commands which I often use when doing manual or automated testing of Android apps.
Continue readingWhen doing mobile test automation, you might need to check if a certain notification is displayed or to get all displayed notifications. In this post I’m going to describe how this can be achieved on Android using adb and/or UiAutomator. Some of the approaches can also be used with Appium.
Continue readingIn this post I’m going to explain step-by-step how to create background Android service with multiple threads.
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