Alerts are not handled if they appear before app gets launched

Issues/Bugs
1

Hi All,

I have added capabilities_device1.setCapability(“autoAcceptAlerts”, true);

but if alerts appear before app gets launched these are not accepted. Is there a way to accept these alerts.

Basically this alert shows a message that app under test would like to send notifications.

Appium 1.4.13

Regards,
Venkatesh

2

Try the waitForappScript capability and click on the alert using the alert name like this.

capabilities.setCapability("waitForAppScript", "if (target.frontMostApp().alert().name()=='App name Would Like to Send You Notifications') {$.acceptAlert(); true;}");

3

I added below code

	capabilities_device1.setCapability("waitForAppScript", "if (target.frontMostApp().alert().name()=='\"app\" Would Like to Send You Notifications') {$.acceptAlert(); true;}");

added backslash as app name is enclosed in double quotes on Alert. But the alert is not handeled.

4

This is talked out at great length in the post below:
Gist “…The only known workaround for this Apple bug is delaying (in the app code) the request for permissions by a few seconds (in older versions of iOS, people reported that about 8s was solid). This gives UIAutomation a chance to spin up, so that by the time the dialog appears, we have an automation context we can use to to handle the alert (using e.g., the autoAcceptAlerts capability).”

5

If you are using java for your scripting, backslash is not needed. i have used without back slash and it worked for me.

`capabilities_device1.setCapability("waitForAppScript", "if (target.frontMostApp().alert().name()=='"App name" Would Like to Send You Notifications') {$.acceptAlert(); true;}");`
6

I too had same issue, sometime Notification popup appeared before app started. Below solution was fine so far
JAVA:
capabilities.setCapability(“waitForAppScript”, “$.delay(3000);$.acceptAlert()”);

Before I used capabilities.setCapability(“autoAcceptAlerts”,true); but It did not dismiss alert some time and then pop use to stay in foreground always and whole UIAutomation crashed mercilessly. But found above SOS

7

It’s not working for me with appum 1.6.3. On macosx 10.12

8

@Vikas_Kumar did you find any solution?

9

Yes. Basically we don’t get the handle of the alert immediately so I am waiting for it. Following is the Java implementation that I have used. Try - Catch because in case if the alert does not come up I don’t want to fail the test. “OK” is the name of the button that appears on the alert.
public void handleNotificationAlert()
{
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 5);
try
{
wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(By.name(“OK”)));
click(By.name(“OK”));
}
catch (ElementNotFoundException e)
{
// Alert did not show up. Nothing to be done here.
}
}